Michael Haardt [1/6/2004 5:03 PM] :
> for purposes like archiving mail for a certain amount of time, it
> would be nice to automatically expire old mail when storing new mail.
> Periodic find(1) jobs are quite inefficient for that. Exim, on the
> other side, already traverses the mailbox when determining soft quota,
> and maildir allows to determine the mail age from the file name. No need
> for expensive stat(2) calls.
I do believe procmail or procmailex has a recipe to store mail in
folders based on the date. That regexp could easily be thrown into your
local_delivery setup in exim.
And for expiring stuff, read your mail with gnus :)
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