Sent Mail message lifetime

[Joeh]

Is there a way to set the lifetime of the sent mail folder?

[jbsnead]

But it seems like a good idea to me.

[dkarp]

But you could probably script this using zmmailbox to do a search (in:sent before:-4weeks or somesuch) and to then delete the results. Fire that off from cron nightly and you should be set.

(Warning: test the search query before you start deleting mail!)

[jbsnead]

Thanks, dkarp for the suggestion.

I'm having trouble creating a script to do it, but I have figured out this much:

( either su zimbra or run zmmailbox in /opt/zimbra/bin/ )
zmmailbox -a username -p password [ use an administrator account ]
mbox> aa admin@domain.com password [ again, use an admin account ]
mbox> sm user_name@domain.com [ open the mailbox of a user ]
mbox> s "in:sent is before:-4weeks" [ do the search ]

I still haven't figured out how to delete them, or how to put the whole thing into a script.

Thanks for your help to get this far!