[TriLUG] mbox cleanup

[Ian Kilgore]

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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> Brian A. Henning
> strutmasters.com
> 336.597.2397x238
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'archivemail' is nice for that sort of thing.  It can be slow (read:
mind-numbingly-painful) on Very Large Mailboxes(tm), but other than that
it's great :)
-- 
Ian Kilgore
echo "pfxz at pfxz.trw" | tr pzfwxt ikagno
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