On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Dale Qualls wrote: > As my spool gets inundated with junk, I run this command every day at > 11:30 p.m. via a cron job. > find /var/MailRoot/spool -depth -name *.MX2 -ctime 1 -delete > > MX2 is the name of one of my xmail boxes so all files in the spool have > it appended to the end of the filename by default. > > Works like a charm :) This actually looks at the current day plus 1 day > so you'll always have files 2+ (but less than 3) days old in your > spool. Checkout the man page on "find" to see the options for times > (minutes, hours, etc...)
This is rather wrong though, if your total spool message age can be longer than one day. To be safe, just use 2*T where T is the total time a message can live inside the spool (depends on the re-send policy params). - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
