sys0001@dircon.uucp (07/03/90)
Can anyone suggest a program which will handle the ageing of mail? What I'm looking for is a program which looks at a user's mailbox file (in /usr/spool/mail) and transfers all messages older than, say, a month to a specified file in the user's own home directory. This is needed to overcome the problem of users getting round their disk quotas by leaving big messages in their system mailbox, rather than in their own directory structures. If this program works with MMDF-style mailboxes, then so much the better. -- sys0001@dircon.UUCP or sys0001%dircon@ukc.ac.uk
schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (07/05/90)
In article <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes: } Can anyone suggest a program which will handle the ageing of mail? } } What I'm looking for is a program which looks at a user's mailbox file } (in /usr/spool/mail) and transfers all messages older than, say, a month } to a specified file in the user's own home directory. If you have Mush, you write a script: # Change home directory to match spool file set home = "~$thisfolder:t" # Collect the mail and save it to AGEDMAIL file pick -ago -1 month | save $home/AGEDMAIL # Update the folder and exit quit And then you invoke it thus: mush -n! -u username -F agedmail-script (or verbosely: mush -noinit! -user username -source agedmail-script for you Sun folks). This must be run by root to work successfully. -- Bart Schaefer schaefer@cse.ogi.edu
john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) (07/06/90)
In <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes: >What I'm looking for is a program which looks at a user's mailbox file >(in /usr/spool/mail) and transfers all messages older than, say, a month >to a specified file in the user's own home directory. This by itself will not deter a reasonably intelligent disk hog. All I'd have to do is keep my multi-megabyte tar file in my mailbox and re-mail it to myself every few weeks. John -- john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329 trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}