Thanks Charles.
Burzin
At 04:07 PM 10/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>As far as the clearing the spambox goes, IMail includes a program that can
>clear old mail, unfortunately it clears all mailboxes found in a directory
>recursively. I have looked into writing a utility to do the same but be
>direct able at individual .mbx files, but the problem comes from the two
>supporting files, .srt and .uid. They both are in a binary format, while
>the .srt file is very simple, and seems pretty unnecessary unless the box is
>sorted differently than the default, the .uid file is more complicated. It
>has a 32 byte header record, and 32 byte records for each message, that
>appear to be broken into 4 byte fields. I know it stores the message
>number, the message read bit, and some other indexes that I have yet to find
>a pattern other than they grow as you go higher in the message count, and
>the header record hold the highest message number and the next number for
>some of the indices. IMail will rebuild the whole thing if deleted, but all
>messages return to unread. The simplest way to truncate is to delete the old
>messages from the .mbx file, and blow away the .srt and .uid files.
>
>If anyone feels like tackling the management of the .srt and .uid files to
>make a proper aged delete, maybe even with a size or message count limit
>option, I'm sure others would appreciate it, I just don't have the time to
>build the needed expertise. VBScript would take way too long to process
>several thousand mail accounts.
>
>Sorry for the long reply. :)
>
>Chuck Frolick
>ArgoNet, Inc.
>
>
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>Sumariwalla
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:29 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] H:Best Practices for Handling Spam
>
>
>Dear List Members,
>
>Among many other things, I'm the email administrator for St. Louis County
>Library. Like many other organizations, spam/UCE is a bane,
>but as an information agency we're also very sensitive about
>filtering. I'd like to hear how other folks in information type agencies
>are handling
>spam.
>
>With Junkmail Pro, I can dump spam into the %imail username%/SPAM.mbx, but
>is there a way to setup an automated script to clear messages
>from the spambox that are older than say 30 days?
>
>I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
>
>Burzin
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