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doveadm-expunge

NAME

doveadm-expunge - Expunge messages matching given search query

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [-Dv] expunge search_query
doveadm [-Dv] expunge -A search_query
doveadm [-Dv] expunge -u user search_query

DESCRIPTION

This command can be used to expunge mails matching the given search query. It is typically used to expunge old mails from usersaq Trash and/or Spam mailboxes. To test which messages a given search query would match, you can use doveadm fetch or doveadm search commands.

In the first form, doveadm(1) will executed the expunge action with the environment of the logged in system user.

In the second form, the command will be performed for all users.

In the third form, only matching mails of the given user(s) will be expunged.

OPTIONS

Global doveadm(1) options:

-D

Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-v

Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

Command specific options:

-A

If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for all users. Using this option in combination with system users from userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it contains also users with a lower UID than the one configured with the first_valid_uid setting.

When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iterate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your database layout. When using the LDAP userdb module, make sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.

-u user/mask

Run the command only for the given user. Itaqs also possible to use aq*aq and aq?aq wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
When neither the -A option nor -u user was specified, the command will be executed with the environment of the currently logged in user.

ARGUMENTS

search_query

Expunge messages matching this search query. See doveadm-search-query(7) for details.

EXAMPLE

This example expunges messages from Spam mailbox that were saved/copied there more than two weeks ago:

 doveadm expunge -u jane.doe@example.org mailbox Spam savedbefore 2w
 

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO

doveadm(1), doveadm-fetch(1), doveadm-purge(1), doveadm-search(1), doveadm-search-query(7)