Re: [vps-mail] cronjob to delete mails older than 7 days in mailbox

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:18:32PM +0200, Martin Fischer wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> please help with a small how-to: Is it possible to delete mails
> older than 7 days with a cronjob?

Alright, I'm a freak. Sorry. I just couldn't resist this challenge:

    http://perlcode.org/tutorials/sysadmin/mail_newer/

The long version is 11 lines of Perl, the short version is 7 lines.
That's much better than the link I sent you earlier (of course, mine
isn't as featureful, but it is small and does only one thing).

You'd run it like this, Martin:

0 5 * * * formail -s /path/to/mail_newer 7 < /path/to/mailbox > /path/to/mailbox.new && mv /path/to/mailbox.new /path/to/mailbox

Try it on some test files first, of course.

Scott
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