purge mail older than X in a few folders only

[netcomrade]

Is there are a way to do this?
Is there are a way to set a retention policy on the server as well? (only for a few folders, not the whole mailbox)

Thanks,

[kcsc]

Yes, look at omtidyallu and omtidyu

[netcomrade]

How about people that actually use folders?

This is pretty useless, how do i specify non-default folders

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       -T folder[s]        Defines which folders the following criteria is to be applied to:
                           i refers to the intray;
                           o refers to the outtray;
                           f refers to the filing cabinet;
                           w refers to the wastebasket (Deleted Items folder).
                           p refers to the pending tray; and
                           l refers to the List Area.
                           r refers to the Scalix Recovered Items folder.


[kcsc]

Not exactly sure what you mean? Do you want to cleanup all non-default folders, a certain list of folders, all folders, or do you want something else.

[netcomrade]

Yes, I want to clean up folders othat than on that list. I have about 40 folders, some of them are filtered mail, which I am interesed to purge on a monthly basis. Doing this through outlook is painlessly slow.

[Valerion]

You'll have to log this as an enhancement request on Scalix Bugzilla. The standard tools cannot do this. However, you could write a perl (or other) script that connect to the mailbox via IMAP and do the cleanup, if you know

[kcsc]

I am still not exactly sure what you want. Do you have a list that you want to cleanup or do you have a list that you do not want to cleanup.

[mikethebike]

If you just want to clear down all folders underneath the "Filing cabinet" top-level folder, you could use the "-S" option in omtidyu

If you want to be selective, you can use the "-l" option.

[Valerion]

-l may work, yeah, but it seems to only handle top-level folders. If you have a hierarchy going it may be harder to do. Probably the best approach, though.