* 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. -- David Champion * [email protected] * IT Services * University of Chicago
