Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?
-- Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com> wrote
(on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 12:48 PM -0500):
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <try_email_me@yahoo.ca> wrote
> > (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500):
> > > I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in
> > > the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be purged from
> > > the mailbox. I am thinking using cron + procmail to do the job, but I
> > > don't know how. Anyone one?
> > Check out the package "archivemail" -- I use this with the debian-users
> > list on a daily basis, and other lists on a monthly basis, and it works
> > perfectly.
>
> I have tried using archivemail but the --delete option doesn't work for
> me. I have posted about this earlier.
>
> Have you gotten the --delete option to work?
Haven't tried it -- I actually archive the mail and manually choose to
either back it up or delete it. Anybody else got this option working --
I have no reason or desire to try it right now.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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