[ALUG] How to truncate a mailbox periodically?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 12-Mar-09 13:15:52, Chris G wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a neat/easy way to keep only (say) the last seven
> days of messages in an incoming mail spool?
> 
> I have a couple of mail spools where I want to be able to do this,
> possibly with different 'number of days' expiry.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green

Possibly some MUAs may have a configuration option to
"Do [X] to messages in Folder [Y] which are more than [Z] days old",
but probably most do not.

In my case, all my Mail folders are in MH format, i.e. each
message is a separate file (whose name is a number) in the folder.
Therefore I could run a cron job on selected folders, checking
the age of each message from its timestamp, and then do with it
what I will.

So, for flexibility, maybe think about using MH mail folders?

Ted.

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