Jun Salen wrote:
Hi all,
I found an article (with python script) on how to clean up Maildir folder for old email messages from http://www.ducea.com/2006/11/25/cleanup-maildir-folders-archive-delete-old-m... . As I understand, this will be run by each user after login. How can I make this runs at least once a month and delete all users message with age more than one month for example using crontab? I am using Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, Courier IMAP/POP3, ClamAV and CentOS4.4 as mail server. If you need further input, please just let me know. Thanks in advance for help. Thanks.
to run the script monthly, put it in /etc/cron.monthly. but you can also run it daily or weekly (but only delete files with age > 1 month).
Instead of deleting, consider moving the files to some place to give you time to recover should something bad happens...
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maildir_list=.... for _maildir in $maildir_list; do for d in `find $maildir -type d -name cur`; do find $d -type f -ctime +30 -exec rm {} ` done done
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