>>> 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 Thats a good idea, but you still need a script that will run this command in each users ~/Maildir directory. I prefer using the find command for this... /usr/bin/find /path/to/Maildir/ -mtime +15 | xargs rm -f 2&> /dev/null Chris -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
