OT: Delete Old Email

[David While]

Are you looking for something like archmbox? See
http://adc-archmbox.sourceforge.net/

This allows you to delete messages from mailboxes based on certain
criteria. I use it to remove any messages over 30 days old from people's
mailboxes as they should have downloaded them by then.
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David While BSc CEng MBCS CITP
Technical Development Manager
School of Computing & Information
University of Central England
Tel: 0121 331 6211
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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
Sent: 25 November 2004 16:02
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: OT: Delete Old Email

Hi Steve,

> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steve Evans

> Currently I send all spam to a local mailbox and then I retrieve them
> via pop.  What I'd like to do is have a shell script delete mail over
> n days.  Anyone know how to do this?  The only thing I could think of
> was to roll the mbox file like you would logs.  But that seems messy
if
> you ever have to retrieve something via pop3.

Hm, why do you do that? Anything wrong with storing them (employing the
"forward to /dev/null to get virus scanning too" thing) so that your
problem becomes a simple shellscript to maintain the quarantine instead?

I'm sure one could cook something up with formail/procmail too, or use
a maildir-based MUA and some not to trivial script, but it'd be simpler
to
just use the quarantine instead of reinventing it in a "pop guise";-).

-- Glenn

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