On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > This works well: > > > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/swendeleter/?topic_id=29 > > > > To use in cron, I commented out the line: > > > > say "$nmails left in the mailbox"; > > > > So I only get cron email if it deleted anything. > > The problem with using heuristics is that it has to read up to a > few hundred lines of *every* message, meaning that *every* email > has to be read 2 times. Very inefficient. Actually, I believe the swendeleter website http://www.hashref.com/prj/swendeleter/ specifies that it only scans messages that are over 100k, which would cut down that problem substantially. Cheers! -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | What sane person could live in this world < > Please do not | and not be crazy? < > reply off-list. | - Ursula K. LeGuin < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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