[nflug] For the command line wizards

[Cyber Source]

Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> Ok guys, I got one for the wizards of command line. I have an email
>> server running spamassassin, which is a very good thing. Spamassassin
>> catches much much crapola, another good thing. It occasionally makes
>> a mistake on valid emails and puts them in 2 folders depending on
>> severity, .probably-spam and .almost-certainly-spam along with actual
>
> Does the dot notation indicate the messages are stored in maildir format?
>
>> been well. But now I would like to give the emails that come in on
>> the 7th day, the same chance that the emails got which came in on the
>> 1st
>
> <snip>
>
>> How can I setup a cron or script to be run by cron that could be run
>> daily and delete the emails in these folders that are at least 7 days
>> old?
>
> Assuming the mail system is using maildir (where each message is
> stored in a separate file), then it'd be trivial to use 'find' with
> the 'ctime' arg.
>
> If they're in mbox or another format (your smtp greeting of sendmail
> makes me wonder), then it wouldn't be quite as easy. ('formail' might
> be able to provide a solution, but I can't remember off the top of my
> head.)
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