Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:22:22 +0200 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: "Steve Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Trimming old mailboxes Message-ID: <00b601c0d07d$23069fe0$6405a8c0@neland.dk> References: <200104290631.f3T6VW190602@virtual-voodoo.com>
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> Got a question. This has to come up time and again. I have a small system > with about 500 users on it. A good number of them are people who leave > e-mail on the server rather than deleting it. > > As you can imagine over time these files have grown rather large. Is there > a program I can run that'll go through the mailboxes (they are all in > sendmail mailbox format) and delete any messages older than say 1 year? > I've discovered that I can tell the pop3 server to do this (sort of) but > would like to give everything a quick cleaning immediately to start fresh. > > Thoughts? > Use purgmbox. A search on google gave this with a link that works: - - - - According to Dmitry Valdov: > > А есть ли где пррограммка, удаляющая старые прочитанные письма из mailbox? > А то некоторые юзера любят почту забирать, оставляя ее на сервере :(( Cucipop это умеет сам делать. :-) А так - ftp://ftp.us.net/pub/unix/freebsd/purgmbox-1.0src.tgz - - - - Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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