Re: periodic cleanup of email

[Frederik Lindberg]

Dinesh Punjabi writes:

> Is there any program/package that will 
> periodically remove/clear email older than a 
> certain period of time ? 

crond, find, rm. Look at find's -ctime/-newer switches. It's very easy to
make a script that checks all the ~/Maildir.

If you use mbox format it's a lot harder. See it as a hint to switch ;-)


-Sincerely, Fred
Frederik Lindberg, Inf. Dis, WashU, St. Louis, MO