deleting old mails

[Christopher Hilton]

Thierry Lacoste wrote:
> I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have
> a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail.
> 
> I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file
> in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox
> on which it operates.
> 
> I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe
> to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual:
> 
>        A few words about locking. There has been a discussion  about  archmbox
>        handles  file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked.
>        The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as  least
>        invasive  as  possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure
>        that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by  another
>        program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 

Have you consider using Maildir/ format instead? A switch to Maildir/ 
format would allow you to use the "find" program to weed out your 
mailbox and locking is not an issue.

-- Chris

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