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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: expiring SPAM in Maildirs?
From:       doug () safeport ! com
Date:       2008-08-21 5:24:44
Message-ID: 20080821012209.H89946 () pemaquid ! safeport ! com
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, LuKreme wrote:

> On 15-Jul-2008, at 19:43, Michael J Wise wrote:
>> Pay particular attention to the + and -s args.
>> But personally, when I had to do this years ago, I wrote a Perl script that 
>> looked for the '^From ' header, grabbed the date/time, figured out how old 
>> it was, and then did or did not copy it to the output. Don't forget to use 
>> lockfile first to make sure no mail is delivered to it while you're doing 
>> the swap.
>
> Ah, that's what I was afraid of.  Yeah, I've been down that path, and there 
> there be dragons and all sorts of other madness.
>
>> This issue alone was reason enuf to specify Maildir as the mail store 
>> format of choice forever anywhere I had a say in the matter.
>
>
> I still have a few mbox accounts, but I'm getting rid of them as fast as I 
> can.

SPAMDIR=spam`date +%m%y`

then delete files older than the desired interval

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