On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:26:09PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > On 15-02-2021 16:21:11, Chris Green wrote: > > I currently have the following two lines in my crontab to delete old > > mails in my junk catching directories > > May I ask why? I mean, how many tens of GB of mail do you get each year so > that > it is necessary to delete stuff? > It's more for 'good housekeeping' than saving space. However I do currently have 1.7Gb of mail which I *do* want saved in my mail directories so adding a lot of unwanted stuff might add quite a bit.
Zillions of small files can make searching and stuff slow too. I've just thought that I could rename the Ju directory at intervals (say once a week) and then remove old ones. It's not possible to make this atomic though, I don't think. -- Chris Green
