[TriLUG] mbox cleanup

[jason at monsterjam.org]

not sure about mbox, but I currently do exactly this same thing with Maildir mailboxes in a cron job.

#!/bin/sh
find /home/luser/Maildir/cur/* -mtime +14  -exec rm {} \; ; done
find /home/luser/Maildir/new/* -mtime +14  -exec rm {} \; ; done

deletes emails older than 14 days old.

if youre procmailing the mail, you can set procmail to write to Maildir format.
Jason


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 
04:12:10PM -0500, Brian Henning 
wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>   What's a quick and easy command-line (i.e. cron-able) tool to take an 
> mbox file and delete messages received prior to a given date?
> 
> The idea is to clean out our two spam-catching mailboxes so that they 
> only hold, say, the past two months' worth of activity.
> 
> Thanks!
> ~Brian
> 
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