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

LuKreme <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
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On 1-Mar-2011, at 09:04, Tim Rice wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I would like to automatically remove all mail for all users after 10 days

Easy! First, make sure you are using Maildir folders. then something very much like this will do it:

find /home/*/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete

I put this in a crontab to be run every day. Of course, change the +7 to +10 (or whatever) and I only delete people's spam, but that's your choice.

> using Procmail.

Hard.

Why are you making it hard?

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