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Re: How to use Procmail to remove messages from server after x number of days

2011-03-01 15:31:45
On 1-Mar-2011, at 12:23, Tim Rice wrote:

On 3/2/2011 1:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:
find /home/*/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete

find /usr/boxes/rice/computerstuff.net/old/ -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;

I was going to test this on a new test box but after seeing your post I'm 
curious about the -ctime and -delete vs -mtime and -rm? Also, How can I be 
sure I'm using Maildir and not Mboxes?

ctime is the create time on the file, mtime is the modified time. Since I am 
deleting only spam message, I don't care when the message was last looked at, 
if it's int hat folder and was created 7 days ago, it's gone.

-exec rm {} \; is simply a long way of spawning a shell and executing rm for 
old, OLD versions of find that don't have -delete.


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