On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 00:31 +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I'm probably going to just write a python3 script of my own to handle my > use-case, which is just to sift through /var/mail/<user> to delete mails > older than a month. Erm, what am I missing, couldn't you do that with a crontab line something like.. 0 1 * * * find /var/mail/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete Or with an -exec option to move and compress them for archival purposes. -- Tixy