Re: Archivemail

From	Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Archivemail
Date	2021-01-24 10:40 +0100
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* 2021-01-24 08:53:22+0000, tixy@yxit.co.uk wrote:

> On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 00:31 +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>> I'm probably going to just write a python3 script of my own to handle my 
>> use-case, which is just to sift through /var/mail/<user> to delete mails 
>> older than a month.
>
> Erm, what am I missing, couldn't you do that with a crontab line
> something like..
>
>  0 1    *   *   *   find /var/mail/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete

File /var/mail/$USER is an mbox file which contains several email
messages. Your suggestion (find [...] -delete) may work with maildir
email storage which has one file per message.

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Archivemail Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2021-01-23 00:30 +0100
  Re: Archivemail Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-23 00:40 +0100
    Re: Archivemail Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2021-01-23 01:20 +0100
      Re: Archivemail Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2021-01-24 00:20 +0100
        Re: Archivemail Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2021-01-24 01:40 +0100
          Re: Archivemail Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-01-24 10:00 +0100
            Re: Archivemail Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2021-01-24 10:40 +0100
              Re: Archivemail Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-25 00:50 +0100
                Re: Archivemail Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2021-01-25 06:50 +0100
          Re: Archivemail Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2021-01-24 21:50 +0100
            Re: Archivemail Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-25 03:30 +0100
              Re: Archivemail Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-25 04:30 +0100
              Re: Archivemail Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-01-25 07:30 +0100
                Re: Archivemail Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-25 07:50 +0100
                Re: Archivemail Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-25 12:50 +0100
                Re: Archivemail Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2021-01-25 21:50 +0100
  Re: Archivemail Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2021-01-25 22:00 +0100

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