Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:22:42 -0400 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deleting old mails Message-ID: <01a301c7a3c9$d319dcf0$d5b9bfcf@lisac> References: <200705312221.23108.lacoste@univ-paris12.fr>
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Hi,
I've used archmbox for a long time on a Sendmail server with no problems at
all. Dunno if you'll have the same experience with Postfix, but as far as
I'm concerned, archmbox works very well.
Lisa Casey
jellico.com, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thierry Lacoste
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: deleting old mails
I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have
a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail.
I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file
in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox
on which it operates.
I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe
to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual:
A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about
archmbox
handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever
locked.
The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as
least
invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to
ensure
that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by
another
program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Thierry.
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