Re: full mail partition

[Krzysztof Dabrowski]

At 14:00 99-03-02 +0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
>Anand Buddhdev writes:
> > Sorry for being off-topic, but I have a small crisis on my hands. I've just
> > been handed the administration of a machine, and its /var/mail containing
> > mbox files is 100% full. qpopper is unable to make temporary drop copies
> > for users POPping email. I know there are many mailboxes with old messages
> > in them. Does anyone know of a script which will let me expire old message
> > automatically on these mailboxes?
>
>Unfortunately, no.  You can back-date the info file past

heh. unfortunately YES ;)

I've sent it to Anand in private mail, but i see that it can be of some interest for others on the list:

read about it at:
http://ct.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/02/04/918130316.html
or download it imediately at;
ftp://ftp.signum.se/pub/misc/garbmail/garbmail-1.0.tar.gz

This should solve all you problems.

Kris