Automatically Clean the Junk Folder and Trash Folder

To delete emails in Junk folder for all users, you can run

sudo doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk all

To delete emails in Trash folder, run

sudo doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash all

I think it’s better to clean emails that have been in the Junk or Trash folder for more than 2 weeks, instead of cleaning all emails.

sudo doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk savedbefore 2w

Then add a cron job to automate the job.

sudo crontab -e

Add the following line to clean Junk and Trash folder every day.

@daily doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk savedbefore 2w;doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 2w

You also need to allow the www-data user to read certificate files by adding the following line.

@daily setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rx /etc/letsencrypt/live/ /etc/letsencrypt/archive/

To receive report when a Cron job produces an error, you can add the following line above all Cron jobs.

MAILTO="you@your-domain.com"

Save and close the file. And you’re done.

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