Remote IMAP Account Folders Maintenance - Retention

Delete the old messages from one or more IMAP accounts based on the given criteria:

• older than a number of days
• maximum number of messages to keep

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6
• PHP imap extension

Installation

• Copy the included imap_maint_config_example.php to imap_maint_config.php and add your IMAP account details there. You can add as many IMAP accounts and folders as you like.

• Keep the sensitive data secure! chmod 0600 the file that contains your IMAP credentials.

• Optionally, if you prefer to keep everything in the same file for simplicity, you can move the configration right into the main script, defining all the options directly in the $accounts array and commenting out the line:

$accounts = require_once __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'imap_maint_config.php';

• For details on the possible ways to configure the "mailbox" parameter, please see PHP imap_open page.

Running the script

Run daily as a cron job. This script connects to IMAP accounts remotely, so any server you have a shell/crontab access to will do.

License

This package is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.