Re: Archivemail

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Archivemail
Date	2021-01-25 00:50 +0100
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:24:39 +0200
Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> > 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.

Take a look at the mboxgrep package.

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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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