No final, não houve respostas e poucas pistas para resolver isso.
Agora, uso este script Perl, que passa por todas as contas e sai de mensagens com mais de 30 dias em pastas na seguinte estrutura:
/home/account/domain.com/mail/mailbox/.00 Arquivo Inbox.2012.08 agosto /home/account/domain.com/mail/mailbox/.00 Archive Sent.2012.08 Agosto
#!/usr/bin/perl
# encoding: utf-8
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use User::pwent;
use POSIX qw( strftime );
use YAML::Any qw( LoadFile );
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec::Functions;
our $USER = q(the-account-user-name);
our $LIMIT = 100000;
our $AGE = 30;
our $STAGGER = 1;
our $PW = getpwnam( $USER );
our $UID = $PW->uid;
our $GID = $PW->gid;
our $HOME = $PW->dir;
our $ERRORS = 0;
our $NOW = time;
$AGE and $AGE *= 24 * 60 * 60;
our $stored_list = LoadFile( "$HOME/.archived-emails" );
our @EMAILS = @$stored_list;
sub shell_escape {
my $token = shift;
if ( length( $token ) == 0 ) { return "''"; }
$token =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9_\-\.,:\/@\n])/\$1/g;
$token =~ s/\n/'\n'/g;
return $token;
}
sub folder_to_dir {
my ( $base, $folder ) = @_;
if ( $folder eq "INBOX" ) {
return $base;
} else {
$folder =~ s/^INBOX(?=\.)//;
return catfile( $base, $folder );
}
}
sub email_to_dir {
my ( $address ) = @_;
my ( $mail_user, $domain ) = split( /@/, $address, 2 );
return "$HOME/mail/$domain/$mail_user";
}
sub create_mail_dir {
my ( $base, $name ) = @_;
my $full = "$base/.$name";
unless ( -d "$full/cur" ) {
system( "/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/maildirmake", '-f', $name, $base );
chown $UID, $GID, "$base/.$name", glob( "$base/.$name/*" );
}
return $full;
}
sub subscribe {
my ( $base, @names ) = @_;
my $subscribed = "$base/courierimapsubscribed";
my %folder_set = map { $_ => 1 } map { "INBOX.$_" } @names;
my $f;
if ( -f $subscribed ) {
open $f, "< $subscribed";
while ( <$f> ) {
chomp;
/^\s*$/ and next;
s(^\s+|\s+$)()g;
$folder_set{$_} = 1;
}
close $f;
}
open( $f, "> $subscribed" );
for my $folder_name ( sort keys %folder_set ) {
print $f "$folder_name\n";
}
close $f;
chown $UID, $GID, $subscribed;
chmod 0644, $subscribed;
}
sub archive {
my ( $email, @folders ) = @_;
my $root = email_to_dir $email;
unless ( -d $root ) {
print "$email: Skipping as it does not appear to be an existing e-mail\n";
$ERRORS++;
return;
}
print "$email: Archiving\n";
for my $folder_name ( @folders ) {
# print "folder_name $folder_name \n";
my $archive = $folder_name eq "INBOX.Sent" ? "00 Archive Sent" : "00 Archive $folder_name" || $folder_name eq "INBOX" ? "00 Archive Inbox" : "00 Archive $folder_name";
my $dir = folder_to_dir( $root, $folder_name );
if ( -d "$dir/cur" ) {
my %subscribed = ( "$archive" => 1 );
my $archive_base = create_mail_dir $root, $archive;
my @targets = grep { -d } map { "$dir/$_" } qw( cur new );
my $find_cmd = join( ' ', map { shell_escape( $_ ) } ( "find", @targets, "-type", 'f' ) );
my @files;
for ( '$find_cmd' ) {
chomp;
my $file = basename( $_ );
if ( $file =~ /^(\d+)\./ ) {
my $timestamp = 0 + $1;
my $path = $_;
push @files, [ $timestamp, $path ];
}
}
if ( @files ) {
my ( @move_list, @stay_list );
@files = sort { $b->[ 0 ] <=> $a->[ 0 ] } @files;
@stay_list = @files;
if ( $LIMIT and @stay_list > $LIMIT ) {
@move_list = @stay_list[ $LIMIT ... $#stay_list ];
@stay_list = @stay_list[ 0 ... $LIMIT - 1 ];
}
if ( $AGE ) {
AGE_LOOP:
while ( @stay_list ) {
my $oldest_entry = $stay_list[ $#stay_list ];
if ( $NOW - $oldest_entry->[ 0 ] > $AGE ) {
push @move_list, pop( @stay_list );
} else {
last AGE_LOOP;
}
}
}
for my $entry ( @move_list ) {
my ( $timestamp, $path ) = @$entry;
my $archive_path;
if ( $STAGGER ) {
my $date = strftime( "%Y.%m %B", localtime( $timestamp ) );
$archive_path = create_mail_dir( $root, "$archive.$date" );
$subscribed{"$archive.$date"} = 1;
} else {
$archive_path = $archive_base;
}
move( $path, "$archive_path/cur" ) or warn( $! );
# print "archive path $archive_path \n";
}
my $c = scalar @move_list;
print " - $folder_name: moved \e[32m$c\e[0m messages to archive folders\n";
} else {
print " - $folder_name: found no messages to archive\n";
}
if ( my @subs = keys %subscribed ) {
subscribe $root, @subs;
}
} else {
print " - $folder_name: skipping as this does not appear to be a valid mail folder\n";
}
}
}
for my $email ( @EMAILS ) {
archive $email, "INBOX", "INBOX.Sent";
}
exit $ERRORS;
A única coisa que eu não gosto sobre este script é que ele modifica o ctime (tempo de epoca do UNIX) dos e-mails movidos para a hora atual. Pelo menos mtime não é alterado.