Re: [Courier-imap] Retention policies?

[Milan O. <cou...@di...>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:31:29 -0500
"Administrator :: pLAN9 via Courier-imap"
<cou...@li...> wrote:

> Hello, I've been a very happy courier-imap user for over 10 years now 
> for my personal mail server. I wanted to know if courier-imap has any 
> mechanism built in for mail retention. About a year ago I added an
> email account on the server for my security cameras, and configured
> them to email me 15 second videos when motion is detected.  This work
> fine, but the size of the inbox is growing to over 10GB in size. This
> makes it a bit slow for initial syncs of the inbox. Does courier-imap
> offer a way to, perhaps, only keep the last 60 or 90 days of mail,
> and delete older ones? The server is running Arch, btw. Thanks!
>

Hi,

look for IMAP_EMPTYTRASH settings in imapd config file. I think this
could be what you are looking for.

Regards,
Milan