Deleting old maildir messages, is what I'm doing OK?

[Felix Finch]

On 20210215, Chris Green wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:32:28PM -0500, José María Mateos wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:07:54PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>> > Does no one else ever delete mail messges? :-)
>>
>> I do, but for Junk / Trash I just set expiration times on those folders on
>> my e-mail provider (Fastmail) so I don't even have to think about that.
>>
>My 'e-mail provider' is me so I have to expire the messages myself,
>hence the question.

I have developed an archive / delete system over the years.  I want a complete archive of some maildirs, so a cronjob moves them to an archive structure.  Others I keep just a couple of weeks and then delete.  Junk/Trash/Spam sticks around for three days in case something came in from an unexpected source.

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