Delete old email messages older than 30days

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  1. JULINT

    JULINT Member

    Hi,
    I want to make shell script to delete old email messages in ubuntu 20.04 and using ispconfig.
    But i don't know where is the path of email messages.

    I want to create shell script to execute command like below
    find /home/username/mail/yourdomain.com/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

    Please help me , where is the path of email messages

    Thanks
     
    JULINT, Oct 20, 2021
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  2. Jesse Norell

    Jesse Norell Well-Known Member Staff Member Howtoforge Staff

    The mail folders are usually under /var/vmail/domain.com/user/Maildir/ on an ispconfig system. If you use dovecot, you may be able to use doveadm to look up the user home (eg. 'doveadm user [email protected]').
     
    Last edited: Oct 20, 2021
    Jesse Norell, Oct 20, 2021
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  3. JULINT

    JULINT Member

    Hi Jesse,
    Thanks for your help.
    I will try it now
     
    JULINT, Oct 21, 2021
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  4. florian030

    florian030 Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Remove Mails from Trash:
    Code:
    doveadm expunge -u EMAIL mailbox Trash sentbefore 30d
doveadm purge -u EMAIL
     
    florian030, Oct 21, 2021
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