Re: Kill mails automaticly
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:26:51AM -0600, David Champion wrote: > P.S. I always forget which GNU programs "fileutils" are. GNU fileutils are all the little dumb programs you need to do housekeeping on Unix. Specifically: chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, shred, sync, touch, and vdir. Not very glamorous or complex, but someone had to write 'em. On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:47:37AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > You can't rely on the mtime to be accurate. Mutt can't tell if you've > touched files externally to it, and the mtime is not preserved when copying > a message to another mailbox. It seems to me that that limitation wouldn't matter in this case -- if you modify a message, it just means that its "days left until deletion" clock gets reset. Would that be a big problem, if one or two messages stuck around for a few extra weeks? You can always manually delete the special cases. Or could it somehow be possible for a message to be deleted -before- its time? -- Mike Schiraldi VeriSign Applied Research smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature
Re: Kill mails automaticly
David Champion wrote: > I'm not sure about this. The mtime on a maildir message file does > not have to be the same as the delivery date of the message, > Unixly speaking. Does the maildir "specification" (ahem) or mutt's > implementation actually guarantee this to a point sufficient to delete > mail without worry? You can't rely on the mtime to be accurate. Mutt can't tell if you've touched files externally to it, and the mtime is not preserved when copying a message to another mailbox.
Re: Kill mails automaticly
On 2002.01.27, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sven Guckes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * JASH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020127 17:46]: > > Is it possible to kill the last oldest messages in Maildir > > automaticly, for example if mails past 1000 already? > > yes. but mutt won't do this unless you start it yourself. > besides of this - mutt is not the tool for this. > > hint: maildir format + cron + fileutils I'm not sure about this. The mtime on a maildir message file does not have to be the same as the delivery date of the message, Unixly speaking. Does the maildir "specification" (ahem) or mutt's implementation actually guarantee this to a point sufficient to delete mail without worry? P.S. I always forget which GNU programs "fileutils" are. Perhaps that's because they're not installed on my computer, but it seems more useful to mention them by name, either way. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
Re: Kill mails automaticly
* JASH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020127 17:46]: > Is it possible to kill the last oldest messages in Maildir > automaticly, for example if mails past 1000 already? yes. but mutt won't do this unless you start it yourself. besides of this - mutt is not the tool for this. hint: maildir format + cron + fileutils Sven
Kill mails automaticly
Hello Mutt folks, Is it possible to kill the last oldest messages in Maildir automaticly, for example if mails past 1000 already? -- Joerg Hoehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
