Re: remove mail periodically?
Hello,
> I have around 10.000 mails in this folder now and it takes a while to open
> it so I'm wondering if there is some tool I can use to remove the old
> mails? Maybe periodically in a cron job? I'm using mutt with the Maildir
> format..
Maildir format - that means messages in individual files?
If so, then you should be able to simply delete them with an appropriate
"find" command, perhaps from a cron job (add a file to /etc/cron.daily).
Try:
find . -mtime 7 -exec ls -l {} \;
Substitute whatever you like for the "ls -l".
Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
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