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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:27:24 +0930 (CST)
From:      Chris Foote <chris@senet.com.au>
To:        Oliver von Bueren <ovb@ovb.ch>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User Mailbox Maintenance
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980415092328.16138A-100000@mrtg.senet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3536b759.106395728@mail.ovb.ch>

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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Oliver von Bueren wrote:

> Has anybody a tool for maintaining user mailboxes which become too
> big? Something like: Delete everything thats older than...
> 
> Should be configurable to select which mailboxes to work on and how
> long of course.

I wrote a Perl script to do this a while ago - it purges mail over
a given age for usernames given as arguments.  It does, however,
defintely require GNU date to be installed on your system, as I
used it to do the date conversions.

You're welcome to use it, and perhaps improve it :-)

	ftp://frog.senet.com.au/pub/zap-old-mail


Cheers,

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