Dear folks,
I need to create message aging policy (based on the age of the message) and mbox aging policy( if there is no login /incoming message in n number of days).
The users that are affected by these policies will be based on an private LDAP attribute. Is there a way that I can incoopperate this LDAP attribute value to setup the aging policy filter?
Thanks,
T Dang
Traditionally, "orphan mailboxes" were defined as, "mailboxes that have no ldap entry".
I don't believe that the -t will help you, here.
In any case, output from mboxutil or options for mboxutil aren't going to help you with automatic message expiration.
Perhaps if you put your requirements in a more detailed way, I could make better suggestions.
Dear Jay,
The requirements include:
Delete selected mailbox which is ZERO in size or no activity (no message deposited or login) in X number days
The other requirement which requires the remove of message or delete of mailbox are based on a value of LDAP attribute associated with the subscriber.
Thanks
Ok.
>Delete selected mailbox which is ZERO in size or no activity (no message deposited or login) in X number days
mboxutil is your friend, here. I suggest writing something that calls mboxutil, and parses the output. These are not orphaned, unless they've been deprovisioned in ldap, not something you mentin.
>The other requirement which requires the remove of message or delete of mailbox are based on a value of LDAP attribute associated with the subscriber.
Hm. You're pretty much on your own for this one. Unless the "vcalue of LDAP attreibute" is, "DELETED" in "UserStatus".
Dear Jay,
>mboxutil is your friend, here. I suggest writing something that calls mboxutil, and parses the output. These are not orphaned, unless they've been deprovisioned in ldap, not something you mentin.
I can use "mboxutil -l" for the ZERO size case.
But for the inactivity case, the comand "mboxutil -l" ==> list of mbox which include the time of last msg. For mail box without message, no date returned ... I guess that since your earlier post, you have indicated that there is no way to determine the time of the last login (activity)
mbox -o -t n ==> I guess I won't be able to use this option, since this will output only orphan mail boxes.
Thanks,
T Dang
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tindang
I know of no way to achieve what you are asking for.
You can create aging rules by user, if you want, but that's not by ldap query.
In a large deployment, having tools like "imexpire" do ldap lookups is very likely to cause serious performance issues.
you care certainly welcome to open a support case, and create an "RFE" (Request For Enhancement". Such get rather low priority, unless they're very popular. Yours is the first such request I"ve heard.
I can't say how many have been tested, but theoretically, there isn't a limit. I suspect that thousands could impact preformance, though.
You can create expiration rule files in the user's directory tree, though. Those should get evaluated when imexpire is run. That may be a better way to go for many, many rules.
Dear Jay,
If the number of mailboxes is as much as multiple millions, do you have any performance information on how long it would take to do the followings:
* expiration rule to delete expired message
* mboxutil -l (list all message)
* imsconnutil (list the last access time of each mbox)
Thanks,
T Dang
> Dear Jay,
>
> If the number of mailboxes is as much as multiple
> millions, do you have any performance information on
> how long it would take to do the followings:
>
> * expiration rule to delete expired message
Depends on many things I can't know. Try it, and see.
> * mboxutil -l (list all message)
Depends on many things. I would not run this every few minutes, as it will cause excessive disk access.
> * imsconnutil (list the last access time of each
> mbox)
Should not take long, accesses in-memory data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> T Dang
Dear Jay,
Thanks for the imformation ...
I tried to use: imsconnutil
imsconnutil -c -s imap
==> Feature is not enbled for imap
Can you let me know that feature is not enabled for imap ?
The imsconnutil is not enabled for imap ? what do I need to do so I can get only imap last access time ?
If I run
imsconnutil -l
==> it gives all mailbox numbers with IMAP, HTTP, POP last acess with values of " NOT-RECORDED"
Am I missing something ?
Thanks
T Dang
