Auto delete trash and junk emails.

hello,

i was wondering if this tutorial is working fine with ispconfig3:

http://www.howtoforge.com/automatic...config-with-roundcube-plus-tmpreaper-tmpwatch

thanks

 

I have no idea if it works or not, however i have been using this script for a couple of years now...

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# this script deletes junk and trash mail older than +(days)

MAILDIRS=$(find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/ -maxdepth 0 -type d)
for basedir in $MAILDIRS; do
	for dir in .Trash .Junk ; do
		for dir2 in cur new; do
			[ -e "$basedir/$dir/$dir2" ] && (
			#echo "Processing $basedir/$dir/$dir2..."
			#echo "Clean $dir - deleting from $dir2"
			if [ "$dir" = ".Trash" ]; then
				find "$basedir/$dir/$dir2/" -type f -mtime +28 -delete
			else
				find "$basedir/$dir/$dir2/" -type f -mtime +7 -delete
			fi
			)
		done
	done
done

I then have a cron job that runs it a couple of times a week.
Trash is deleted after 28 days, Junk after 7.

 

hello tahunasky

thanks for the script.

can we test it on 1 mailbox to make sure its deleting the correct folders. and what are $dir1 & $dir2 variables ?

 

yes it can be tested on one mail box.. just modify this line:

MAILDIRS=$(find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/ -maxdepth 0 -type d)

and replace the */* with the domain and user names ( for email address [email protected] ) like this:

MAILDIRS=$(find /var/vmail/mydomain.com/user1/Maildir/ -maxdepth 0 -type d)

$dir holds the names of directories after Maildir - eg Inbox, Sent, Trash, Junk... etc
so if $dir = Trash or Junk in the for loop, script will then do the next for loop, which looks at $dir2.
$dir2 holds the names of directories under $dir - eg cur, new
so if any files in $dir2 are older than specified they are deleted.