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Christian Schmidt
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
Hello Craig,

Craig Whitmore, 20.07.2006 (d.m.y):

Quote:
find /var/spool/mail/ -type f -ctime 3 -exec rm {} \;

but man find before you do this

And beware that you are using maildir format! Otherwise, all mailboxes
matching your "find" command will be deleted _completely_!

Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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Cédric MARCOUX
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:31 am    Post subject: Re: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
Finally found a great tools:
http://adc-archmbox.sourceforge.net/

Using command like this work like a charm:
archmbox -k -o 15 /var/spool/mail/*

Regards,


Chris Lightfoot a écrit :
Quote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:31:55AM +0200, "Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont)" wrote:
Hi!
I have set a new router to deliver a copy of my mails to an exchange
server using this settings:

exchange2003:
driver = manualroute
domains = +local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * 192.168.123.254
unseen = true

With this settings, I keep the mail on my Linux server, this is a good
thing since I have a little backup on my linux.

But I would like to know if there is a procedure to cleanup
/var/spool/mail/%users% by deleting mail older then 3 month for exemple

Hope someone got a solution,

if you're delivering to maildirs, then Craig Whitmore's
solution is about right. If you're delivering to
mailspools, then this tool:
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/downloads/trimfolder-20041010.tar.gz
will do sort of what you want (but it trims to constant
size, rather than constant age of oldest message). Another
possibility would be to deliver mail to mailspools whose
name changes daily (e.g. /var/spool/mail/chris/20060720)
and then use a find command to nuke the old ones.



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Chris Lightfoot
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:19 am    Post subject: Re: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:31:55AM +0200, "Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont)" wrote:
Quote:
Hi!
I have set a new router to deliver a copy of my mails to an exchange
server using this settings:

exchange2003:
driver = manualroute
domains = +local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * 192.168.123.254
unseen = true

With this settings, I keep the mail on my Linux server, this is a good
thing since I have a little backup on my linux.

But I would like to know if there is a procedure to cleanup
/var/spool/mail/%users% by deleting mail older then 3 month for exemple

Hope someone got a solution,

if you're delivering to maildirs, then Craig Whitmore's
solution is about right. If you're delivering to
mailspools, then this tool:
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/downloads/trimfolder-20041010.tar.gz
will do sort of what you want (but it trims to constant
size, rather than constant age of oldest message). Another
possibility would be to deliver mail to mailspools whose
name changes daily (e.g. /var/spool/mail/chris/20060720)
and then use a find command to nuke the old ones.

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Craig Whitmore
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
Quote:
But I would like to know if there is a procedure to cleanup
/var/spool/mail/%users% by deleting mail older then 3 month for exemple

Hope someone got a solution,


find /var/spool/mail/ -type f -ctime 3 -exec rm {} \;

but man find before you do this

Thanks
Craig


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Heiko Schlittermann
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:04 am    Post subject: Re: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
Hello Cédric,

you can write some script for scanning the mailbox content. Probably
something like this already exists: I found e.g. chewmail. BUT I didn't
use it. So I do not know if it is sufficient. But its description reads good.

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Cédric MARCOUX
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 10

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:31 am    Post subject: Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning Reply with quote
Hi!
I have set a new router to deliver a copy of my mails to an exchange
server using this settings:

exchange2003:
driver = manualroute
domains = +local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * 192.168.123.254
unseen = true

With this settings, I keep the mail on my Linux server, this is a good
thing since I have a little backup on my linux.

But I would like to know if there is a procedure to cleanup
/var/spool/mail/%users% by deleting mail older then 3 month for exemple

Hope someone got a solution,

regards


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