On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Gregory Hicks wrote: > Sometime ago, someone supplied a pointer to 'preenmail'. That allows > you to specify a date 30, 60, 90, whatever days ago and to delete all > mail older than that date.
The problem with doing that is that it also finds mail the user has left on server, so if you're wanting to track dead/abandoned accounts it causes problems of its own by updating the folder stamp. It's primarily intended as a way of enforcing serverside (don't store) storage policies. As far as the backup program mentioned by another poster goes, there should be a flag to not tweak atime/mtime/ctime stamps on files being backed up. As per usual, there are a dozen different ways of killing this cat, all with their own advantages and disadvantages. Thankfully we're not all at each others' throats about how to do this. :-) AB
