Re: How to use Procmail to remove messages from server after x number of days
Tim Rice <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.procmail |
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| Organization | Phuket Pure Mail |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Arthur, This looks very promising, I'll need to check and see if I can run it on a shared server. Thanks for the link. On 3/2/2011 1:48 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:04 +0700, Tim Rice wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I would like to automatically >> remove all mail for all users after 10 days using Procmail. >> >> Thanks in advance for any ideas on if, or how to get this working. If >> anyone knows of a link to a how to article on this it would be much >> appreciated as well. >> > > Hello, > > I don't know if I'm missing something here, but there is a tool made > just for this job (the *nix philosophy - do one thing and do it well - > use the right tool for the job). > > That tool is (imho) archivemail - http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/ > > It can be configured to archive or delete mail over a user-specified age > and it can leave flagged mail or unread mail in place (if that's what > you want). > > Look into it and see if it does what you need... > > Best regards. > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > procmail mailing list Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/ > [email protected] > http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail -- Best Regards, Tim Rice Computer Stuff Phuket Thailand 83000 Tel: +66 76 376165 Fax: +66 76 376165 www.computerstuff.net www.phuket-mail.com