[TriLUG] Re: command line: delete all mail in a folder

[James Manning]

> Ive considered just deleting the entire file and using touch
> to recreate an empty mbox folder, but there must be a more elegant
> and safe way.

I'm sure there's better routes, but this is what I have for a daily
cron job - answer to the orig. question being "cp /dev/null foo"


jmm at sublogic:/home/jmm% less bin/process_spam.sh
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
SPAM_MBOX=~/mail/spam
HAM_MBOX=~/mail/ham

if [ -s $SPAM_MBOX ]; then
    sa-learn --spam --mbox $SPAM_MBOX
    cp /dev/null $SPAM_MBOX
fi
if [ -s $HAM_MBOX ]; then
    sa-learn --ham --mbox $HAM_MBOX
    cp /dev/null $HAM_MBOX
fi
sa-learn --rebuild

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