Re: purging mailboxes
* On 28 Jan 2011, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>
> It would be nice to automate the maintenance, so: could a script (also
> run by cron) manage a mailbox by pruning messages older than some
> <number> of days, or by deleting all but the last <number> of messages?
Have your script save to a maildir folder instead of mbox. With a
maildir, scripted message expiration is as easy as a find -mtime. If a
gunslinger approach is not a problem you can just unlink all messages
found by find, but to do it properly (without potential collisions with
other software) you should rename the messages from new/ or cur/ into
tmp/ before unlinking.
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David Champion * dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx * IT Services * University of Chicago