Planned for 11.34 Dovecot Trash Mail [Case 11678]

[rhenderson]

I was wondering if anyone has addressed the issue of trash for dovecot. I assume we could write a script. I have see some add-ons but not sure how those would work with cPanel. Just curious if anybody has addressed this issue and if so how did you fix this?

[cpanelkenneth]

I was wondering if anyone has addressed the issue of trash for dovecot. I assume we could write a script. I have see some add-ons but not sure how those would work with cPanel. Just curious if anybody has addressed this issue and if so how did you fix this?

There is a Trash plugin for Dovecot that we are working on integrating properly. The plugin is rather flakey so it didn't make the cut for 11.24 (perhaps 11.24.1 or later).

Other than that a cron job that compares mtimes would suffice (and is close to what the plugin does).

[rhenderson]

Thanks for the update

[SoftDux]

Hi,

Is there any update on this plugin yet?

[Kent Brockman]

There is a Trash plugin for Dovecot that we are working on integrating properly. The plugin is rather flakey so it didn't make the cut for 11.24 (perhaps 11.24.1 or later).

Other than that a cron job that compares mtimes would suffice (and is close to what the plugin does).

Is there any news about this?

[cpanelkenneth]

The Plugin and its efficacy are in the same state as when I posted earlier.

[Kent Brockman]

The Plugin and its efficacy are in the same state as when I posted earlier.

ok, but if this plugin just works fine, where could I grab a copy to give it a try?

[cpanelkenneth]

It's shipped as part of the RPM.

[Kent Brockman]

It's shipped as part of the RPM.

So...... it will automatically deployed when I migrate to Dovecot? or should I do anything else?

[cpanelkenneth]

This plugin requires some extensive setup to work properly. The documentation from Dovecot is rather vague in parts, exacerbating the issue. For those, and related, reasons we do not support this plugin at this time. When Dovecot 1.2 is released we will re-examine the matter.

[Kent Brockman]

This plugin requires some extensive setup to work properly. The documentation from Dovecot is rather vague in parts, exacerbating the issue. For those, and related, reasons we do not support this plugin at this time. When Dovecot 1.2 is released we will re-examine the matter.

ok, I will be waiting for that release since it will be the best moment to migrate for those who do prefer the STABLE version of everything

[aag73]

Would a script like this

find /home/*/mail/*/*/.Trash/cur/* -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f
find /home/*/mail/*/*/.Trash/new/* -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f

Would be sufficient to delete Trash for all accounts with files (emails) older than 24 hours?

Looking forward to your response.

[Kent Brockman]

Would a script like this

find /home/*/mail/*/*/.Trash/cur/* -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f
find /home/*/mail/*/*/.Trash/new/* -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f

Would be sufficient to delete Trash for all accounts with files (emails) older than 24 hours?

Looking forward to your response.

Hola, it's pretty nice, BUT, it will enforce the deletion, whether the customer wants to empty the Trash or not. I'm not sure if we should take on that decissions (it depends on every case, I guess). BTW, Horde should be the responsible for doing this because it has a config screen where you can set how old the Trash elements shall be before they're deleted.

[aag73]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I guess forcing to empty the Trash was what I was looking for.

I guess I'm just trying to find out if using such a script would create havoc in something else, for example freeze up horde or not allowing customers to download e-mail. I'm not an expert in maildir or courier.

[Kent Brockman]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I guess forcing to empty the Trash was what I was looking for.

I guess I'm just trying to find out if using such a script would create havoc in something else, for example freeze up horde or not allowing customers to download e-mail. I'm not an expert in maildir or courier.

I think you should probably have to run ...

/scripts/generate_maildirsize --allaccounts --force

after your script execution, to ensure the usage reports being correctly updated. The case is, if you manually delete files from the cur/new folders, you should run generate_maildirsize to sync the contents of maildirsize with the new scenario.


You can also run it from the console in a more graphical and specific way:

/scripts/generate_maildirsize --verbose --allaccounts --force username

will show you how the sync process goes on, and only applying it for username user


what I really really don't know, is whether generate_maildirsize really takes in account specifically the Trash folder or not.
Here should come somebody from staff to illuminate us.