Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:42:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: Jason Taylor <jason+freebsd@kanda.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Zapping Email Box Message-ID: <20020515084029.H62470-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020515103052.0301aa40@mail.sage-one.net>
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Why not change whatever is writing to the mailing list to be a script... so if you're using sendmail something like: mymailbox: |/path/to/script.sh And then script.sh can look something like: #!/bin/sh cat - > /path/to/mailbox.`/bin/date +%y-%d-%m` which would give an output of /path/to/mailbox.2002-05-15 for today... then you're cleanup script gets run at 12:01 and looks for yesterday's file and does whatever it needs to do... -philip On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> Running FBSD-4.5 RELEASE with sendmail-8.11.6 and Qpopper > >> > >> As part of a daily digest mailing at midnight, I have a cron job that > >> copies a mailbox contents to a work file, then a script strips out the > >> extra header "noise" and sends out the nice clean digest to its members. In > >> order to cut off the mail box at precisely midnight, I have been "zapping" > >> the email box to zero it out in order to start another day's collection of > >> emails right after midnight. I use this command to "zap" the email box: > >> #echo > mymailbox > > > >my mymailbox mymailbox.yesterday > > > >Then do your cleanout etc. on mymailbox.yesterday. > > > >That should be alot safer > > > >Jason > > ....but, I must zero out "mymailbox" exactly at 23.59.... that's the > problem, not making a work copy. I already make a "work" copy like > "mymailbox.yesterday" for doing the other processes. The problem is > clearing out the original mymailbox.... > > .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ > > Best regards, > > Jack L. Stone > Server Admin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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