[nflug] For the command line wizards

[Cyber Source]

Darin Perusich wrote:
> this really depends on what mail server software your mail server is
> running and how the messages are stored. are individual messages stored
> as a seperate file or as a monolithic mbox file? if they are seperate
> files see the -ctime option for the find command.
>
> i'm using the cyrus imap server which has this nice little utility
> called ipurge which will remove message from the spool based on days old
> or size. cyrus has a built in events service to handle this. i purge
> spam after 14 days.
>
> 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 spam based on previously black holed IP, html format, etc..
>> It does a very good job and rarely makes a mistake. Initially when
>> putting this in, I came up with the idea that we had better whack those
>> 2 folders on a weekly basis because if people don't subscribe to these
>> folders and check them or delete the emails in them, they could get
>> huge, and in a hurry. So, I just setup a cron to weekly whack these
>> folders, all has 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 day, that being 6 more days to check the folder to see if
>> it is actually spam and not a mistake. So my question is this....
>> 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? This way, if someone does get a valid email put in the spam
>> folders, they would have at least 7 days to go check. Also, something to
>> keep in mind that people often put wrong dates, etc., so it would
>> actually read the time/date that the email arrived.
>> I envision lots of curlys and dashes and dollar signs here....{'}$-@???
>> TIA
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This would be courier-imap using Maildir, sorry, should have included
that info in the first post
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