On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:34:13AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to > >Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are > >applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able > >to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup > >folder. > > > >Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too > >much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if > >somebody could point me the right direction. > > > One way to do it would be to use the libmail-imapclient-perl package to > write a program that does it. > > The documentation may be a little sparse. You could end up learning > Perl *and* reading an RFC! :-)
There's always the hard way to solving any problem :-}. Anyway, I know that it's common for people to run cron jobs on their mbox files to archive email. I am just surprised that no such tool seems to exist for IMAP. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
