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

On 1-Mar-2011, at 14:35, Richard Ball wrote:
> 
> On 1-3-2011 16:31, LuKreme wrote:
>> On 1-Mar-2011, at 12:23, Tim Rice wrote:
>>> On 3/2/2011 1:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>>>> find /home/*/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete
>>> find /usr/boxes/rice/computerstuff.net/old/ -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;
>>> 
>>> I was going to test this on a new test box but after seeing your post I'm curious about the -ctime and -delete vs -mtime and -rm? Also, How can I be sure I'm using Maildir and not Mboxes?
>> ctime is the create time on the file, mtime is the modified time. Since I am deleting only spam message, I don't care when the message was last looked at, if it's int hat folder and was created 7 days ago, it's gone.
>> 
>> -exec rm {} \; is simply a long way of spawning a shell and executing rm for old, OLD versions of find that don't have -delete.
>> 
>> 
> Which will break if too many files are found. (where "too many" means the length of the string of filenames exceeds the buffer length allocated for commands on the system).

I thought they fixed that in find? But regardless, I've deleted a lot of mail this way and not had a problem.

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