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From: kevinc@bearcat.lim.tek.COM (Kevin Cosgrove 627-5212)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Here's a way to expire old messages
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Date: 4 Feb 88 21:55:55 GMT
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Dave Yost's neat trick for expiring old messages through an 'rmm'
alias and compainion script reminded me of a trick I use myself.

I use draft folders, but in doing so I loose the outgoing drafts
each time I send another.  E.g.:  +drafts/1 becomes +drafts/,1 and
the next +drafts/1 overwrites +drafts/,1.  From time to time people
request that I resend a message for some reason.  I've been keeping
an +outbox for just this situation.  My "components" include "Fcc: outbox"
which will place a folder copy there.  In order to keep my +outbox
from filling up forever I added a "search and destroy" line to my ~/.logout
file to clean out old outgoing messages.  Below is the command to
do this.

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#! /bin/csh

# remove old outgoing message files, compact outgoing and incoming mail dir's
#
find ~/Mail/outbox -name "[0-9]*" -mtime +5 -exec /bin/rm {} \; |& mail kevinc &
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Have fun!
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	Kevin Cosgrove           	Tektronix, Inc.
	11K Plug-Ins Project Leader	PO Box 500, M/S 47-092
	LIM Product Test Engineering 	Beaverton, OR  97077
	kevinc@bearcat.LIM.TEK.COM	(503)-627-5212
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