auto delete email in mailbox

[Jason Dixon]

On Mar 29, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Chris Purcell wrote:

>> We are using the stock Sendmail and all mail is stored in the
>> /var/spool/mail directory under individual mailboxes as the name of 
>> the
>> login on the server.  Basically we made no change to it from the
>> original  installation of RHEL AS.
>
> Sendmail uses the mbox format, where each email in a users mailbox is
> stored in a single text file.  This makes it more difficult to 
> implement
> what you want to do.  If you switched to Postfix and Maildir-style
> mailboxes, you could easily write a Perl or bash script that would 
> execute
> daily via cron to do what you want.  If you want to make the switch, 
> I'll
> see if I can write it....

There are plenty of modules that will handle mbox formats as well.  
Hell, if I can write a script to recursively detach tiff attachments 
from users' mail, this should be a piece of cake.  ;-)

use Mail::Internet;

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