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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:42:13 -0500 (EST) Mike Gorse <mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org> wrote: > I find that my inbox tends to accumulate messages and become bloated > over time, and a lot of the email I get is time-specific (ie, about an > event that will happen on a certain date or something that needs to be > done by a certain date). So it would be nice if I could make messages > expire by a certain date and have them automatically removed from my > inbox after that date has passed. (I don't mean this in a digital > rights management sense but something I could set on a message I've > received.) Do any mail clients have a feature that will do this? I > was thinking about trying to set my computer up so that I could, say, > forward a message to expire-20040301 and have it go into a file along > with a note saying that it should be deleted on the 1st, and then > having a cron script that would look through the file and the inbox > and delete things that have expired. Of course, I have no idea how > difficult this would be (I know practically nothing about configuring > sendmail or anything else, but then it seems like it would be a good > time to learn.) Or can anyone suggest an easier way to do it? Some email programs will sort the mail by date, and you can select and delete a bunch of messages at once. The automatic solution is more difficult. Since you are using a single mbox file rather than maildir or mh folders, so it is a bit more complicated. An mbox is a monolithic flat file containing messages. What you want is a script that locks the mbox file (/var/spool/mail/<your user name>), then scans the file for mail meeting your criteria, and then removes it from the mbox file, possibly creating a trash file for you to check. MH and Maildir formats are a bit more flexible. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMN1Y+wA+1cUGHqkRAotAAJ4ohqK8AOPviSMwv0sVOzlmybbmzACfaOvG aKpM7aSh8cjQUr8R/1fhGVU= =ahIa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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