Hi Folks, Just found a script that I have adjusted to work with ISPConfig 3 to clean up the old trash mail ect. Code: #!/bin/bash MAILDIRS=$(find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/ -maxdepth 0 -type d) for basedir in $MAILDIRS; do for dir in .Trash .Junk .Spam .Low\ Priority; do for dir2 in cur new; do [ -e "$basedir/$dir/$dir2" ] && ( echo "Processing $basedir/$dir/$dir2..." find "$basedir/$dir/$dir2/" -type f -mtime +30 -delete ) done done done When migration from Cpanel to ISPconfig I found that my users have a lot of old mails in the trash. When I ran this script it saved me about 25GB of diskspace.
super ... just what I was looking for. I was having hard time and thought of writing one utility ... Thanks mate
Great idea - Scripts not working yet ... Hi, Sound really great! This is exactly what's always missing, in any case of software making.. Order, clean-up functions etc. - any chance of getting it to work on ubuntu server 10.04/ispconfig 3 ? Looking forward to hear from you guys Kind Regards. DanHansen@Denmark
You can run this either from command line or via a cron find /var/vmail/*/*/.Junk/new/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; Above will delete any file older than 30 days from all .Junk/new/ folders Explanation The first argument is the path to the files. This can be a path, a directory, or a wildcard ( For all email accounts ) as in the example above. I would recommend that you run the command without the exec rm to make sure you are getting the right results. Only use rm as this will not remove any directory only files The second argument, -mtime, is used to specify the number of days old that the file is. If you enter +30, it will find files older than 30 days. The third argument, -exec, allows you to pass in a command such as rm. The {} \; at the end is required to end the command.
I'm personally using: Code: #!/bin/sh find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/.Trash/new/ -mtime +30 -type f -delete find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/.Junk/new/ -mtime +90 -type f -delete find /var/vmail/*/*/Maildir/.Junk\ E-mail/new/ -mtime +90 -type f -delete exit which is a file created in /etc/cron.daily/ and chmoded to 755 Works perfectly for me. Trash older than a month gets deleted, spam older than 3 months gets deleted.
Here's another that we use and looks at timeframe to delete as well. Code: #!/bin/sh # Time to wait before removing mails from the Junk folder (Default: 7 days) Set 0 to turn off. junk_max_hours=$((24*7)) # Time to wait before removing mails from the Trash folder (Default: 30 days) Set 0 to turn off. trash_max_hours=$((24*60)) for domain in /var/vmail/* do if [ -d "$domain" ] then for user in $domain/* do if [ "$junk_max_hours" -gt "0" ] then if [ -d "$user/.Junk" ] then tmpreaper -m $junk_max_hours $user/.Junk/cur tmpreaper -m $junk_max_hours $user/.Junk/new fi fi if [ "$trash_max_hours" -gt "0" ] then if [ -d "$user/.Trash" ] then tmpreaper -m $trash_max_hours $user/.Trash/cur tmpreaper -m $trash_max_hours $user/.Trash/new fi fi done fi done
I want to use this command in sendmail for pruning Trash Folder, instead of using as a script i want to use / test as a single command for single user. Please help...
Not sure what you mean, that script is simply 3 commands, you can run them from the command line manually rather than together as a script. For a single user, just change the path to that mailbox, eg. Code: find /var/vmail/domain1.com/email1/Maildir/.Trash/new/ -mtime +30 -type f -delete If you use dovecot it's even easier and should also update the maildir quota: Code: doveadm expunge -u [email protected] mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d If you have dovecot 2, you can run that for all mailboxes with: Code: doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d If that returns 'Error: User listing returned failure', you need to enable iterate_query: Code: sed -i 's/^# iterate_query/iterate_query/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf (change that in a conf-custom file to make it persist ispconfig updates).
Thanks Jesse & Florian, I am a newbie in Linux specially for MTA, and some of my questions may seems stupid and i am sorry in advance... I can't find below locations find /var/vmail/domain1.com/email1/Maildir/.Trash/new/ what i found in my server is find /home/mail/username/mail/ and there i can't able to use option of -mtime ... Similarly doveadm resturns command not found though dovecot is installed and running, version is 1.0.7 how to use expire or autoexpunge plugin? Sorry once again if it sounds stupid.
/var/vmail/ is the place where ispconfig will store email by default; I believe you can change that, but you would likely know if you had done that. 'domain1.com' is just an example domain name, and 'email1' is an example email address - you need to change those to the domain name and address which you are wanting to to clean up (ie. the 'single user' you referred to). This is not anything ispconfig would use by default, eg. if you followed one of the Perfect Server setup guides here on howtoforge, so might well be unused. Look at /var/vmail/ and see what's under there, eg. do you have a directory for each of your domains? Does /home/mail/ have a directory for all your email addresses, or just one particular user you see there? Are you logged in as a normal user, or root? If a normal user, either switch to root, or use sudo (eg. 'sudo doveadm expunge -u [email protected] mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d'). If root, what linux distribution/version are you running? The expire plugin is to optimize disk I/O when doing dovadm expunge -A, it's not used at all for individual users (-u). From the documentation: autoexpunge would allow you to configure a similar cleanup to be done automatically, though I don't know if you can limit it to a single user (maybe?), and it isn't available in dovecot 1.
Dear Jesse, thanks for the details you have shared. but still confusing for me as i do not have dir /var/vmail instead i am seeing a dir /var/mail and this directory contains all the accounts e.g. my account m.hussain but its a file and nothing in it... yes, i logged on with root account but still getting -bash: doveadm: command not found i m using CentOS release 5.9 (final)
