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

[Angel M Alganza]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:12:39PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:

>> > mails in my junk catching directories, is it OK/safe to do it like this?

>Other ones are error messages from a remote server which I
>usually don't care about but occasionally I want to look at.

Oh, that's interesting.  I might be setting my own set of junk catching 
maildirs for things like those that I clean manually every now and then.

>My mail is delivered by SMTP direct to my desktop machine which runs
>postfix and is on all the time.  As a backup I have my domain hosting
>service deliver all my mail to another system as well as to my home
>server.

I synchronize (mbsyn) all email into my IMAP server to several different 
desktops, laptops and phones and, in my main desktop, I make an 
incremental backup through BTRFS snapshots that I keep for years.  So, 
at all times I have multiples copies of all email across different 
devices, a 'bak' remote IMAP maildir to keep every email for 180 days, 
and also an incremental back up.

Re-reading this last paragraph I think I might come across a little 
paranoid (and no, I don't work for a secret agency or anything, LOL), 
but I have developed the system over many years, and as I implemented 
new ideas and kept the previous, it's got those many 'layers'.  But I 
like it and it works very nicely by giving me the peace of mind that I 
can recover every single piece of g̶a̶r̶b̶a̶g̶e̶ email I might need (I will 
never, hehe, but still...)

Cheers,
Ángel