> I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to > read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own > mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or > some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one > have a nice way to do this? TIA > make a cron-job, which checks your mailbox every day. i've attached a script, which removes all messages, which are older that 7 days. please test this thing thoroughly, as i programmed it now from scratch.
possibly there is a simpler way to do this ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
#!/bin/bash # the following line would be "MB=$1", if you wanted to pass the mailbox # to process as an argument to the script MB=~/debian.mbox formail -s bash -c "IFS=''; b=\`cat\`; test \$(date -d \"\$( echo \$b|formail -x Date )\" +%s ) -ge \$(date -d \"7 days ago\" +%s ) && echo -e \"\$b\n\n\"" <$MB >$MB.new && mv $MB.new $MB
