Re: deleting old mails
Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual: A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about archmbox handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked. The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as least invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by another program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future. Any help would be appreciated. Have you consider using Maildir/ format instead? A switch to Maildir/ format would allow you to use the find program to weed out your mailbox and locking is not an issue. -- Chris -- __o All I was doing was trying to get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hiltonchris | at | vindaloo.com pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting old mails
On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual: A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about archmbox handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked. The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as least invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by another program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future. Any help would be appreciated. Have you consider using Maildir/ format instead? A switch to Maildir/ format would allow you to use the find program to weed out your mailbox and locking is not an issue. AFAICS the Maildir/ format implies that mails are delivered to the home directory of the users. On the mail server the home diretory is NFS-mounted read-only just to be able to see the .forward files. Users are required to use only pops to read their mail (qpopper is on the mail server) and I wanted to avoid unnecessary network traffic: from the mail server to the NFS server upon mail receipt and in the other way when readind mail with pops. Regards, Thierry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting old mails
On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:05 AMJun 3, 2007, Thierry Lacoste wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual: A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about archmbox handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked. The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as least invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by another program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future. Any help would be appreciated. Have you consider using Maildir/ format instead? A switch to Maildir/ format would allow you to use the find program to weed out your mailbox and locking is not an issue. AFAICS the Maildir/ format implies that mails are delivered to the home directory of the users. On the mail server the home diretory is NFS-mounted read-only just to be able to see the .forward files. Users are required to use only pops to read their mail (qpopper is on the mail server) and I wanted to avoid unnecessary network traffic: from the mail server to the NFS server upon mail receipt and in the other way when readind mail with pops. That's not true. My particular mail system saves to a mail-specific directory, under /usr/local. Not in the user's home directory. If you're worried about disk space, try enabling quotas in your postfix configuration. There's a great postfix how to at www.purplehat.org to help you set all this up. Personally, I don't try to tell users what email they can have, I just limit their space - they'll decide what's important and what's not. However, maildir is the way to go if you want to search for delete certain mail. HTH. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting old mails
Hi, I've used archmbox for a long time on a Sendmail server with no problems at all. Dunno if you'll have the same experience with Postfix, but as far as I'm concerned, archmbox works very well. Lisa Casey jellico.com, Inc. - Original Message - From: Thierry Lacoste To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:21 PM Subject: deleting old mails I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual: A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about archmbox handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked. The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as least invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by another program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Thierry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.4/825 - Release Date: 5/30/2007 3:03 PM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
