Thanks for the responses>
Guess I must have been dreaming after all. Since some of you seem to be
looking for the same solution, I will share what I have used this far. I
found a program a while back called Clean Mail which works if you want to
remove old mail in increments of a month at a time. It also has a feature
which has come in handy to remove an individual message that may have been
sent to many users either on purpose or spam. I have used it to search the
mail spool for viruses and removed them in the past as well.
http://jguellec.free.fr/program/perl/clean_mail/clean_mail_english.htm
After I posted the message below, I found another utililty called garbmail
that will run from a cron job and you can select how many days of mail you
want to keep. It has a lot of features to allow different things for
different users as well. It has been running now for 3 days and the spool is
staying at one level and not growing as it was before. This is probably the
best solution over all since it should not impose any more server load on
qpopper and can be run in the wee morning hours when things are quite. I
found this from TUCOWS Linuxberg under console email utilities.
Thanks,
Frank
At 05:17 PM 11/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have qpopper3.1 running in server mode and it is working fine. I Thought I
>read somewhere that you could have qpopper remove messages from the server
>after they were x many days old, however I have not been able to find this
>in the documentation. Did I dream this, can anyone set me straight? I don't
>want to delete all the mail after it is downloaded, but I don't want users
>to leave the mail on the server forever.
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>Thanks,
>
>Frank Beale
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