Re: mail retrieve

[Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com>]

Mark Roach wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 05:01, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>
> > Florentin Ionescu wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a mail-retrieve-program which can be customized to delete
> > > messages on server after a period of time ?
>
>
> > take a look at fetchmail, and man fetchmail.
>
>
> I use archivemail against my imap server to keep my mailing lists
> trimmed to just the past 2 weeks worth of messages
>
> I just have the following in my crontab:
>
> #  m   h  dom mon dow command
> # auto archive debian-user messages over 14 days old
>    40  8   *   *   *  archivemail -q -d 14 --delete imap://mrroach:password@okmaybe.com/INBOX.debian-user
>
>
> HTH
>
> -Mark

It looks to me that archivemail is a better solution, sinse fetchmail 
can only delete after a n=number_of_messages (if I didn't read the man 
wrong.)

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/ernst