Subject: Spool Cleanup

From: Paul Ribeiro <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 07:58:18 -0500 (EST)

This isn't a pine question but I'm interested in how mail managers
deal with end of semester cleanups and people who love to keep all
their mail in their inbox. Do you run a nightly job to remove mail
that is more than xx days old?
many thanks,
/P

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From: "Isaias Callejas Mancilla." <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:39:04 -0600 (CST)

> that is more than xx days old?
Hi Paul,
	type "man find" on your UNIX System and you can use instructions
as: 

 find /usr/spool/mail -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

and found solution to you problem..

NOTE: Remember as good administrator to back before of delete...

Later..

     /####           E. Isaias Callejas M.
   /#    /########   Electronic Mail System Administration
 /##   /##########   Coordination of Computing Services
 ### /##       ###   Academic Computing, National University of Mexico
 ### ######### ###  ==================================================
 ###       ##/ ###   University City, Mexico D.F.
 ##########/   ##/   E-mail : [email-masked]
 ########/    #/     Phone  : (5)6 22 85 22  << MIME is Welcome!!! >>
         ####/

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 20:09:21 +0100 (MET)

> >  Do you run a nightly job to remove mail

And delete even new messages?  Not a good idea.  Ask archie about a
program called mailclean, that's a better solution.

--Arnt