I do something similar by having a perlscript run from cron against my
imap server to delete based on ttl/expiry times from the mailbox.
So you could do the same by sweeping thru and purging based on
creation time
On Mar 26, 2008, at 7:18 AM, 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?
>
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