Topic: Bulk mail delete ?

[david000]

Hi,

I'm looking at implementing a mail retention policy where we keep mail for x years.  I've fully decided but as we're in the UK 7 years might be reasonable.

At the moment we have mail going back to 2013 so I need to a way to delete anything on the system prior a given date. Manually doing that in round cube looks to be a bit of a PITA.

We use webmail \ roundcube to access mail on our local SME Server.

Any suggestions on how to best do this ?

Also, if there are UK users I'd be interested in your take on retention policy.

[ReetP]

Hi,

I'm looking at implementing a mail retention policy where we keep mail for x years.  I've fully decided but as we're in the UK 7 years might be reasonable.

At the moment we have mail going back to 2013 so I need to a way to delete anything on the system prior a given date. Manually doing that in round cube looks to be a bit of a PITA.

Any suggestions on how to best do this ?

Think these are two of the more well known apps for managing imap accounts - sure there are others:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/
https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter


You could also possibly do a fancy bash script to find and delete files over X age.

eg

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194863/delete-files-older-than-x-days

Also, if there are UK users I'd be interested in your take on retention policy.

I don't delete anything. Storage is cheap.....

If I did I'd cold archive anything over say 10. You could use imapsync to a safe space and then back that up to a secure medium.

Others may have other thoughts!

[david000]

Think these are two of the more well known apps for managing imap accounts - sure there are others:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/
https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter


You could also possibly do a fancy bash script to find and delete files over X age.

eg

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194863/delete-files-older-than-x-days


I don't delete anything. Storage is cheap.....

If I did I'd cold archive anything over say 10. You could use imapsync to a safe space and then back that up to a secure medium.

Others may have other thoughts!

Thanks, imapsync might be a plan, especially if I can rig that on a windows machine.

[ReetP]

Thanks, imapsync might be a plan, especially if I can rig that on a windows machine.

Sounds like a plan!