Yan Seiner wrote: > I am using exim .forward to put all mailist emails into a single lists > file. Now I would like to set up that list file as a ringbuffer, so > that when a new email comes in, an older one drops off. (most maillists > are archived anyway, so there's no point in keeping old emails). > > I can either do this as each mail comes in, or daily in batch, but how > do I set up a filter to delete older emails? Or should I write a script > to do this from cron?
Cron is definitely the right way to do this; you don't want to inspect your entire mailstore possibly hundreds of times a day as each message arrives, looking for old messages to expire. I do something similar with my Sent folder (moving messages older than two weeks to an Archive folder) and it works well. - Marc -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
