Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:03:23 +0100 From: Jason Taylor <jason+freebsd@kanda.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zapping Email Box Message-ID: <20020515150323.GC6657@uk2.kanda-systems.net>
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Forgot to cc to list. Sorry. Jason ----- Forwarded message from Jason Taylor <jason+freebsd@kanda.com> ----- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:00:01 +0100 From: Jason Taylor <jason+freebsd@kanda.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Subject: Re: Zapping Email Box Reply-To: Jason Taylor <jason+freebsd@kanda.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020515094741.0118be50@mail.sage-one.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Running FBSD-4.5 RELEASE with sendmail-8.11.6 and Qpopper > > As part of a daily digest mailing at midnight, I have a cron job that > copies a mailbox contents to a work file, then a script strips out the > extra header "noise" and sends out the nice clean digest to its members. In > order to cut off the mail box at precisely midnight, I have been "zapping" > the email box to zero it out in order to start another day's collection of > emails right after midnight. I use this command to "zap" the email box: > #echo > mymailbox my mymailbox mymailbox.yesterday Then do your cleanout etc. on mymailbox.yesterday. That should be alot safer Jason -- ==================================================================== Jason Taylor. Kanda Systems Ltd. Tel: +44/0 1970 621030 Systems Manager. Unit 17 Glanyrafon Fax: +44/0 1970 621040 jason@kanda.com. Enterprise Park. Mobile: +44/0 7976 926918 http://www.kanda.com. Ceredigion, UK http://shop.kanda.com ==================================================================== ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ==================================================================== Jason Taylor. Kanda Systems Ltd. Tel: +44/0 1970 621030 Systems Manager. Unit 17 Glanyrafon Fax: +44/0 1970 621040 jason@kanda.com. Enterprise Park. Mobile: +44/0 7976 926918 http://www.kanda.com. Ceredigion, UK http://shop.kanda.com ==================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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