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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
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Subject: Re: Aging Mail
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Date: 26 Nov 90 23:28:33 GMT
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bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter) writes:

>I'm looking for a program that will "age" mail.  For example, that will
>look in /var/spool/mail/*, and if a user has mail older than X days,
>will delete those messages (leaving the newer ones).  

>Is such a program out there? 

>Bo Slaughter
>-- 
>+--------------------------------------------------------------+
>|  Bo Slaughter                bo@gumby.eng.clemson.edu        |
>|    (803)656-2721         "I'm gumby.eng.clemson.edu dammit." |
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MUSH, the Mail User SHell, does many things, including sort and pick by
many various styles.  It then allows you to pipe the results, of a 
"pick" of all files older than X (say 10) days, and delete them.

Available via anonymous ftp from:
cse.ogi.edu

You can find it in:
pub/mush/mush-7.2.0.tar.Z


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     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12