deleting old mails

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

I've used archmbox for a long time on a Sendmail server with no problems at 
all. Dunno if you'll have the same experience with Postfix, but as far as 
I'm concerned, archmbox works very well.

Lisa Casey
jellico.com, Inc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Thierry Lacoste
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: deleting old mails


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.

Regards,
Thierry.

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