Maildir -- purging old messages

From: Bill Moseley (moseley_at_hank.org)
Date: 08/04/03

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    I have a spam folder. I check it once in a while for false positives
    (rarely found).

    I'd like to run a cron job that would clean out messages older than a
    15 days.

    Any harm in doing something like:

       rm `find ~/Maildir/.spam -type f -mtime 15`

    or maybe better to pipe find to xargs

       find ~/Maildir/.spam -type f -mtime 15 -print0 | xargs -null rm -f

    Each folder has three subdirectories: cur, new, and tmp. Plus there's a
    courierimapuiddb file. Messages look like this in "new":

      1059968029.13519_1.mardy

    and like this in "cur":

      1059944854.6608_1.mardy:2,S

    If the above find removes the courierimapuiddb will that cause any
    problems?

    I'm not quite sure I understand when messages are moved from "new" to
    "cur". 

    -- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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