Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:24:14 -0400 From: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> To: leifn@internet.dk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Purging popped mail Message-ID: <l03102820b19b0c73b2ce@[140.228.15.35]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603070540.432A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk>
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At 1:09 AM -0400 6/3/98, Leif Neland wrote:
>Does an utility exist which can remove read, but not removed mail after x
>days, and unread mail after y days?
>
>Just part of the mailfile, I don't want to remove the entire file.
>
>Users seem to leave more and more mail on the server, even if they have
>picked it up with pop3.
>From some recent discussions on one of the lists:
Purgmbox helps implement mailbox aging and size policies.
It rewrites one or more mailboxes, removing leading items that:
- are older than a given age in days
- are From a given ID
- would cause the final mailbox to be larger than a given size
It's safe to install as set-gid to mail.
Normal usage is from a root (or mail!) cronjob:
find /var/mail -type f | xargs /usr/local/bin/purgmbox -o60 -s500
John Woodruff <jjw@us.net>
I suggest you contact John. The only problem I have had with this program
is that some mail systems are too dumb to quote a "From " string in the
message body.
I may play around with the header parsing and some other informational
additions to this program.
---
Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu>
Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810
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