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I'm using the following recipe to maintain a backup of the last 100 messages
received.
# Create a backup cache of 100 most recent messages in case of mistakes
:0 c
z.backup
:0 ic
| cd z.backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,100d`
The problem is that the backup cache, (z.backup) isn't being pruned. Here's
the last 3 messages listed in z.backup;
N 1316 Jul 3 Martin Ebourne (2,922) Re: Xterm vs nxterm vs rxvt
N 1317 Jul 3 Sunando Sen (1,953) Re: Is there a linux equivalent of
d N 1318 Jul 3 Graeme Bell (1,854) Changing mouse port
- ->N 1319 Jul 3 Yafei Liu (2,563) Re: Changing mouse port
As you can see there's 1,319 messages in the backup cache. How can I make it
prune the cache automatically?
The path to the file is /home/russ/mail/z.backup, (z.backup is a file, not a
directory.) All my incoming mail is sorted into folders in /home/russ/mail/
by procmail.
Russ.
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