Yan Seiner wrote:
> I am using exim .forward to put all mailist emails into a single lists
> file. Now I would like to set up that list file as a ringbuffer, so
> that when a new email comes in, an older one drops off. (most maillists
> are archived anyway, so there's no point in keeping old emails).
>
> I can either do this as each mail comes in, or daily in batch, but how
> do I set up a filter to delete older emails? Or should I write a script
> to do this from cron?
I use this for killing old mails in a Maildir format
# kill anything over 14 days old
find /path/to/Maildir/.whatever/cur -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
Of course, you're out of luck without Maildir ;) I'm sure there's
scripts or programs out there to trim off spool files.
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