On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:54:06AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> 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.
>
Is that mutt's header caches? If so I don't tend to leave mutt
running all the time, I assume it refreshes things whenever it's
started does it?
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Chris Green (ch...@halon.org.uk)
