> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:42:23 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chip Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Alan Brown wrote to Kenneth Porter:
>
> > find -atime is probably a better tool for this.
> > [snip]
> > A non-accessed mail file will have an old atime stamp, even if there's
> > been new mail, so tracking these is fairly easy..
>
> We run this early every morning as a cron job, on the theory that anyone
> who hasn't accessed his/her mail in 30 days isn't interested in e-mail:
>
> find /var/mail -atime +30 -print -exec rm {} \;
>
> The "-print" output causes cron to e-mail a list of the deleted mailboxes
> to root.
Sometime ago, someone supplied a pointer to 'preenmail'. That allows
you to specify a date 30, 60, 90, whatever days ago and to delete all
mail older than that date.
I found the package after some searching although I am sure the
archives still have a pointer... At least, I *think* I have the
package. What I have is about 25K uuencoded...
Regards,
gregory Hicks
>
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