[CentOS] Maildir Cleanup
mouss
mlist.only at free.fr
Wed Jan 31 22:26:46 UTC 2007
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-mails/
> . 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...
<untested>
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
</untested>
</untested>
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