I do something similar by having a perlscript run from cron against my imap server to delete based on ttl/expiry times from the mailbox.
So you could do the same by sweeping thru and purging based on creation time On Mar 26, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: > I am using exim .forward to put all mailist emails into a single lists > file. Now I would like to set up that list file as a ringbuffer, so > that when a new email comes in, an older one drops off. (most > maillists > are archived anyway, so there's no point in keeping old emails). > > I can either do this as each mail comes in, or daily in batch, but how > do I set up a filter to delete older emails? Or should I write a > script > to do this from cron? > > --Yan > > -- > o__ > ,>/'_ o__ > (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ > Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ > Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ > Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ > Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) > > Help out my kids' school: http://www.seiner.com/blog/Travels/ > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
