On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 04:21:11PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
I currently have the following two lines in my crontab to delete old mails in my junk catching directories, is it OK/safe to do it like this?20 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/cur -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; 30 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/new -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
That should be fine. The only caveat is header caching. If you delete messages outside of mutt, those messages won't be removed from the header cache. Probably not a big deal for "junk catching" folders, but once in a while you may want to regenerate your header caches.
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