Re: How to use Procmail to remove messages from server after x numberof days

Quoting [email protected]:

> At 09:50 2011-03-01, Alan Clifford wrote:
>> I do it.  Not on my system mailbox but on the mailboxes for mails  
>> such as this mailing list which procmail has put in  
>> ~/mail/IN.procmail. Essentially, it deletes stuff that is more than  
>> 'n' days old and keeps the younger stuff.
>>
>> It is rather a monster kludge involving cron, bash script, formail,
>> procmail and lockfile.
>
> If you just move the messages into dated subdirectories, you don't  
> have to reprocess anything.  The downside is that exchanged rarely  
> wrap up within the confines of an arbitrary date cutoff, so you've  
> got exchanges in last months (or weeks) archive, and they continue  
> into the current one.  But then, lots of stuff doesn't wrap up in  
> 7-10 days either.

I do it with Maildir on the Spam and Trash folders:
Procmail.rc:
DOMDIR=`/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $EXT@$HOST`
CLEANRESULT=`/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/bin/cleanspamtrash.sh $DOMDIR`

cleanspamtrash.sh:
-----------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#Get current timestamp of file, delete and re-create if older than 1 day
FILE=$1/.spamtrashclean
NOW=`date +%s`
if [ -f "$FILE" ]
then
FILEDATE=`stat -f %m $FILE`
AGE=`expr $NOW - $FILEDATE`
else
AGE=90000
fi

echo "Now is $NOW"
echo "Filedate is $FILEDATE"
echo "Age is $AGE"

if [ $AGE -gt 86400 ]
then
  # Clean Spam and Trash folders
  # 7 days for Spam
  # 14 days for Trash
  if [ -d $1/Maildir/.Trash ]
  then
         find $1/Maildir/.Trash/cur/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +14  
-exec rm {} \;
  if [ -f $1/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index ]
  then
         rm $1/Maildir/.Trash/dove*
  fi
  fi
  if [ -d $1/Maildir/.Spam ]
  then
  find $1/Maildir/.Spam/cur/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
  if [ -f $1/Maildir/.Spam/dovecot.index ]
  then
         rm $1/Maildir/.Spam/dove*
  fi
  fi
  #Update/Create timestampfile
  touch $FILE

fi


Rick