[TriLUG] Folder size control with procmail

[Jon Carnes]

Cronjob.  I use a script kicked off by cron once a week to parse through the
mail my folks leave on the mailserver.  I delete anything older than 2
months. Of course I still use the default mbox format.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike McLean" <mike at darkcanvas.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Folder size control with procmail


> I'm a fairly recent procmail convert, and I really enjoy being able to
> have all my mailing list traffic be automatically organized into
> folders.  However I currently do not have any automated mechanism for
> trimming those folders; I just end up manually deleting by date every so
> often.  Granted, it's not that much of a hassle, but I'd like to
> automate this too.
>
> This would of course be trivial if the imap server I access through
> understood Maildir, but it doesn't.  While I have a few ideas, I thought
> I would first check to see if anyone on the list had any suggestions.
>
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