On 29-Mar-2004/10:01 -0500, Chris Purcell <redhat@xxxxxx> wrote: >> We are using the stock Sendmail and all mail is stored in the >> /var/spool/mail directory under individual mailboxes as the name of the >> login on the server. Basically we made no change to it from the >> original installation of RHEL AS. > >Sendmail uses the mbox format, where each email in a users mailbox is >stored in a single text file. This makes it more difficult to implement >what you want to do. If you switched to Postfix and Maildir-style >mailboxes, you could easily write a Perl or bash script that would execute >daily via cron to do what you want. If you want to make the switch, I'll >see if I can write it.... If he switches to maildir format, he can use the tmpwatch utility that ships with RH. No need to reinvent the wheel. tmpwatch --force --mtime age_in_number_of_hours dir Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:Anthony%20E.%20Greene%20%3Cagreene@xxxxxxxxx%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
