mckay@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D. McKay) (10/11/90)
I'm considering switching over to ams for my mail reader. Is there a way to automatically clean out mail messages older then a certain age from ams folders? I currently do this using a program I've written which handles MH style folders and /usr/ucb/mail style folders. It reads a control file to determine the "age" for various folders and a default age for folders not listed in the control file. Empty folders are removed. What's a good way to do this for ams? Is there an "already built" ams tool which can do this? --Dwight D. McKay, ECN Workstation Software Support --Purdue University, Engineering Computer Network --Office: MSEE 104f, Phone: (317) 494-3561 --mckay@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu --or-- ...rutgers!pur-ee!mckay
dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu ("Douglas F. DeJulio") (10/11/90)
mckay@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D. McKay) writes: > Is there a way to automatically clean out mail messages older then a > certain age from ams folders? The cui 'epoch' command does this for entire trees of message folders.
nsb@thumper.bellcore.com (Nathaniel Borenstein) (10/11/90)
You can do this using the "epoch" command in the CUI interface. If you want to have it happen regularly and automatically, it is pretty easy to write a cron or at job to do this -- that's how those of us who run AMS-based bboard systems run purge jobs, and it will work equally well for personal mail. -- Nathaniel