On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, LuKreme wrote:
On 15-Jul-2008, at 19:43, Michael J Wise wrote:
Pay particular attention to the + and -s args.
But personally, when I had to do this years ago, I wrote a Perl script that
looked for the '^From ' header, grabbed the date/time, figured out how old
it was, and then did or did not copy it to the output. Don't forget to use
lockfile first to make sure no mail is delivered to it while you're doing
the swap.
Ah, that's what I was afraid of. Yeah, I've been down that path, and there
there be dragons and all sorts of other madness.
This issue alone was reason enuf to specify Maildir as the mail store
format of choice forever anywhere I had a say in the matter.
I still have a few mbox accounts, but I'm getting rid of them as fast as I
can.
SPAMDIR=spam`date +%m%y`
then delete files older than the desired interval
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