Managing Maildirs

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Fri Dec 19 11:35:34 PST 2003


On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:32:13PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> >Number one above will do the trick and is far more efficient than using the
> >``find ...-exec'', although you might want to modify it to only nuke mail
> >over a certain age.  To nuke all trash over 30 days old:
> >
> >	find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm
> >
> 
> On a totally unrelated note,  I'm thinking about switching from mbox 
> formatted mailboxes using imap, to a more robust and faster imap server 
> that uses maildirs.  My problem is, I have pop users, imap users, and 
> elm/mutt/pine users on the same box.  Does elm/mutt/pine work ok with 
> maildirs?  What about sendmail?  What should I be looking out for?

Mutt does beautifully. I believe will only with patches that are likely
never going to be integrated.

-T


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