Quoting Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi,
>
> The below script is supposed to delete mail in all IMAP folders older
> than 60 days. But it deletes more recent email also. Does anyone have an
> idea as to why this doesn't work? I post to this group because I am
> using courier-imap and I have no idea why this find command does not
> work. Does courier-imap change the email files?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> ##################
> #!/bin/bash
>
> DIR=/var/spool/exim/vmail
>
> find $DIR -type f -name "[0-9a-zA-Z]*\.[0-9a-zA-Z]*.server.domain.com"
> -mtime +60 -delete

I assume that you have used "-ls | less" or something similar in place  
of -delete for testing.  Did that work as expected?

because at first glance it looks like it should work.

ed

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