Re: Tools for dealing with mboxes and stale .pop files?

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Gregory Hicks wrote:

> 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:36:42 +0000 (WET)
> > From: Hugh Sasse <[email protected]>
> > To: Subscribers of Qpopper <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Tools for dealing with mboxes and stale .pop files?
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Randall Gellens wrote:
> > 
> > > There are scripts that have been posted in the past that let you 
> cull old
> > > mail.  Something else to think about.
> > 
> > I've failed to find anything with google.  I've just checked a stale
> > temp-drop file (breaking it into messages, and using SHA256 sums to
> 
> Try looking for "prunemail"...  (prunemail was used to delete email
> older than $DATE...)  After reading the rest of your message, though,
> not sure if this is what you're looking for...

I found this:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://ftp.nluug.nl/mail/mh/contrib/9302/prunemail.shar&e=42

which seems to depend on a command called scan which I don't have.

If anyone else is interested in my ruby iterator for mboxes, it is here:

http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/mbox_each.rb

and used in this to split mailboxes into chunks:

http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/split_mbox.rb

But I'm not absolutely sure of its reliablility.
> 
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks

        Thank you,
        Hugh