doveadm-expunge(1) - Expunge messages matching given search query
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] expunge [-S socket_path] [-d] -A search_query
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] expunge [-S socket_path] [-d] -F file search_query
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] expunge [-S socket_path] [-d] --no-userdb-lookup search_query
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] expunge [-S socket_path] [-d] -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 users' 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, the command will be performed for all users.
In the second form, doveadm(1) will expunge messages of the users listed in the given file.
In the third form, the command will be performed for the user contained in the USER environment variable.
In the final form, only matching mails of the given user (s) will be expunged.
OPTIONS
- -d
- Delete the mailbox if it is empty after expunging.
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