Auto-deletion of emails

There is not, but it's not too hard to do. It's been asked on these forums many times though.

http://forums.cpanel.net/f43/having-issues-getting-cron-job-work-389492.html

 

Does the "Auto Expunge Trash" option also act on the accounts spam folders?

 

Hi Michael,
thanks a lot for your reply, it was exactly what I was looking for.... unfortunately I was not able to let it work.
As you suggested I made a copy of /var/cpanel/templates/dovecot2.2/main.default to /var/cpanel/templates/dovecot2.2/main.local and I made the following changes:

Code:

[% IF expire_trash %]
  expire_dict = proxy::expire
  expire = Trash
  expire2 = "Deleted Messages"
  expire3 = "INBOX.Deleted Messages"
  expire4 = INBOX.Trash
  expire5 = Junk
  expire6 = Spam
  expire7 = spam
  expire8 = INBOX.Junk
  expire9 = INBOX.Spam
  expire10 = INBOX.spam

[% END %]

Then I run

Code:

/scripts/builddovecotconf

which had the following output

Code:

info [builddovecotconf] 'local' template in use (/var/cpanel/templates/dovecot2.2/main.local)

I suppose there's a cPanel nightly task that calls this procedure, but it did not delete old spam messages last night.
I also tried to manually run

Code:

/scripts/maintenance

which had this in its log

Code:

...
[20141002.091305]   Processing: Cleaning up mailbox trash
[20141002.091305]    - Processing command `/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/dovecot_auto_expunge_trash`
...

but spam messages are still there.

By the way, inside the dovecot config file a comment says:

Code:

  # Expire plugin. Mails are expunged from mailboxes after being there the
  # configurable time. The first expiration date for each mailbox is stored in
  # a dictionary so it can be quickly determined which mailboxes contain
  # expired mails. The actual expunging is done in a nightly cronjob, which
  # you must set up:
  #   dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool

but if I try to run

Code:

dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool

I get

Code:

Fatal: Unknown argument: --exec-mail

I suppose it was for an old dovecot version.

Any ideas?

 

The "/scripts/dovecot_auto_expunge_trash" gives no output, but your words made me think... Many old messages were recently moved to Trash/Spam folders. I thought they would have been deleted since they were pretty old, but it makes sense that the 30 days are counted starting from the date of deletion and not from the date of the message. So I suppose they will be deleted in a month or so.
By the way, is there a way to get the deletion date of a message?

 

I have been having problems with this myself. Under WHM » Service Configuration » Mailserver Configuration I have set Auto Expunge Trash [checked] and set Trash Expire Time to be 10. Also, my dovecot.conf file includes the following:

Code:

  expire_dict = proxy::expire
  expire = Trash
  expire2 = "Deleted Messages"
  expire3 = "INBOX.Deleted Messages"
  expire4 = INBOX.Trash
  expire5 = Junk
  expire6 = INBOX.Junk

Yet, Trash and Junk never auto expunge. I ran the following script manually, however, and it cleaned one of my Trash folders on one email account (the Junk folder was NOT auto expunged):

Code:

/scripts/dovecot_auto_expunge_trash

Other than checking the setting in Mailserver Configuration, do I need to manually add a cron job? What do I do about the Junk folders? I'm using WHM 11.48.

 

Yes, precisely.

 

Hi @cPanelMichael ,

I have followed the steps in an old thread to auto delete the spam messages that Spamassassin marks as spam and places in the Junk folder, the thread is at Auto-deletion of emails but they do not work.

I created the copied the file /var/cpanel/templates/dovecot2.2/main.default to /var/cpanel/templates/dovecot2.2/mail.local

I added the expire 4, 5 and 6

[% IF expire_trash %]
expire_dict = proxy::expire
expire = Trash
expire2 = "Deleted Messages"
expire3 = "INBOX.Deleted Messages"
expire4 = INBOX.Trash
expire5 = Junk
expire6 = INBOX.Junk

I then rebuilt the config, and get the
'local' template in use message (/scripts/builddovecotconf) but when I run
dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool command I get

Fatal: Unknown argument: --exec-mail error. When I try running /scripts/dovecot_auto_expunge_trash directly I get a
-bash: /scripts/dovecot_auto_expunge_trash: No such file or directory error.

Did you ever manage to get this working as I see you asked for the other person who asked about this to submit a ticket but no update was made to the thread

 

Hi Michael,

Running /scripts/dovecot_maintenance does not clear the junk out. That command gives no output either.