Re: question about monthly clean up mbox script

If the mailbox happenes to be accessible via IMAP, you might look at
using the mailutil program that comes with the UW imapd distribution.

That way imap would handle all the locking for you.

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:13:54PM -0500, David Coppit wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
> > I have a question, I want to use grepmail in a cronjob script to check a mbox file and remove
> > al mails older then 1 month (or 2 weeks).
> > I am not a guru with shell/bash scripting but perhaps someone has a little tip for me?
> 
> The problem is that you'll want to lock the file during the operation so
> that new incoming mails won't get lost. But something like this (untested)
> should work:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> lock_mailbox_somehow();
> grepmail -d 'since 1 month ago' mailbox > tempmailbox;
> mv tempmailbox > mailbox
> unlock_mailbox_somehow();
> 

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