[NMLUG] automatic mail delete?

[michaelm at nnmcc.edu (Michael Maddex)]

If you are talking about separate user files, you could try something like this:

    # find /var/spool/mail -mtime -X -exec rm {} \;

where 'X' is your 'X days old' and '\;' is part of the syntax.  You can use the
'-i' or '-f' argument to 'rm' if appropriate.  See man find for more info.

Hope this helps.

havoc said:
> what command would I run to delete messages older than X days old in my
> mail spool?
>
> thanks,
> jody
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