Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!usenet.rpi.edu!wiseb From: wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (G. Bowden Wise) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Mail purger Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 91 22:42:49 GMT References: <9101171719.AA07907@coke.eng.umd.edu> <279620F3.21165@ics.uci.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu's message of 17 Jan 91 22:10:59 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu When I started using MH, I discovered just how much my disk space can grow after a week of messages piling up. So, what I do now is invoke a weekly 'cleanfiles' job using the 'at' (unix) command. This job deletes all my deleted mail messages in all my folders, deletes all emacs backup files, as well as autosave files that may have been left aroound. The 'find' command is used to do this. This gives me the flexibility of not having to delete things right away as well as some peace of mind that my disk usage is being kept under control. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Bowden Wise Computer Science Dept, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, NY 12180 internet: wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu bitnet: bowden@rpitsmts