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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:
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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

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Leif


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