auto delete email in mailbox

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Mon Mar 29 17:36:18 UTC 2004


On Monday 29 March 2004 10:39 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:20:07AM -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > How about running it thru procmail? Isn't procmail has some sort of
> > option that you can run mail thru it after it's received? I've never used
> > it myself, but if it does, then that's probably easier. Then you just
> > need the procmail rule to delete email that was arrived before certain
> > date.
>
> Procmail's strength is to process incoming mail.  What the original
> poster wanted was to delete old mail.  Different problem entirely.

Yes, I understand that. But I vaguely remember reading somewhere that you can 
use procmail to filter mails that you already receives. There's some sort of 
trick to do that, IIRC. But I can be entirely wrong.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
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