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Topic: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

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- iRedMail version: v0.2.2
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Hi,

I've been running this server for over a year.  Emails from over a year ago seem to no longer exist.  Is there a process running that automatically purges or archives old email?  I haven't explicitly archived or deleted them.  Thanks for any insight.

Calvin

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

iRedMail doesn't have cron job to delete old emails.

3 Reply by cyockey

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Re: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

iRedMail doesn't have cron job to delete old emails.

Thank you for your quick response.  So, just to confirm, without an email client doing the archiving and purging, iredmail would let the file system fill up before it would purge emails?

Calvin

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Re: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

If the quota is met, nothing will expunge. New emails will just bounce. Your expunging is probably the work of your email client.

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Re: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

cyockey wrote:

So, just to confirm, without an email client doing the archiving and purging, iredmail would let the file system fill up before it would purge emails?

Yes, but as @hdco mentioned, except the mailbox quota was reached. smile

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Re: Does iRedMail automatically purge old messages?

Thank you both for your prompt responses.  What a great forum!