On Sat, December 31, 2005 11:29 am, Sam Varshavchik said:
> Chris Purves writes:
>
>> On Sat, December 31, 2005 10:27 am, Sam Varshavchik said:
>>> Chris Purves writes:
>>>> On Fri, December 30, 2005 7:51 pm, Sam Varshavchik said:
>>>>> Chris Purves writes:
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I would like to know if it is possible to have courier remove old
>>>>>>>>messages, say 6 months old, from trash or mailing list folders.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I am using courier-imap with maildirs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> imapd file....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That has the capability that I want, but is it possible to have a
>>>>>> seperate file for each user?
>>>>>
>>>>> No.
>>>>>
>>>> What would be the best way to do what I want? Write a script that
>>>> deletes
>>>> old files and add that to my crontab?
>>>
>>> That'll work. Be sure to watch out for common pitfalls.
>>>
>>> find ~user/cur -mtime +30 --exec rm {} \;
>>>
>>> The user doesn't log in, or get any mail for 30 days. You get paged at
>>> 2am
>>> by an alarm for a failed cron job, because rm tried to remove the cur
>>> directory itself.
>>>
>> Thanks for your help. I made a bash script using your suggestion that
>> removes old mail from specified directories:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> # this script purges mail older than specified days from specified
>> directories
>>
>> # enter directory names to be purged, seperated by spaces
>> DIRS="trash sent-mail lists.clamav-announce"
>>
>> # enter number of days to purge if older
>> DAYS="180"
>>
>> for DIR in $DIRS
>> do
>> find ~/Maildir/.$DIR/cur -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm {} \;
>> done
>
> Like I said, there'll be a small chance that you'll get paged at 2am in
> the
> morning, six months from now, or so, to clean up after a failed job.
>
I experimented on an empty directory and indeed, as you said, find wanted
to remove the directory, but by adding -type f as Michael suggested, there
was no problem with the empty directory.
--
Good day, eh.
Chris
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