Re: Is there a fetchmail setting to delete messages after x days?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (08/07/05 16:43), Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2005-07-08 15:24:45, schrieb Clive Menzies:
> 
> > Thanks Michelle
> > 
> > Another opportunity to break a working system ;)
> 
> Not directly, because you can use "imapfilter"
> to do the job independatly with a cronjob.
> 
> (works only, if you use imap)

I am using IMAP and I'll dig around the docs 'cos I'm not clear on what
you mean.

> 
> > It's shame 'cos I really like the daemon mode of fetchmail  ...still I
> > suppose running from crontab isn't all bad, just less elegant.
> 
> But why not setup getmail parallel to fetchmail ?
> Do not let getmail download Messages but deleting it.
> 
> Right, its a hack, but it should work.

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that?  Seems the way to go ;)

Thanks

Clive

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