Cleaning Mail Spool files

[sivatek]

Hi

I would like to clean the mail boxes of users in /var/spool/mail in my RS6000 boxes.

Can anyone tell me, is there any script/tool which can remove the mails which are 2 months old.

Please advice.

Thanks
Siva

 

[alexhu]

you may like to examine the find command along with the mtime option

Alex

 

[KenCunningham]

Akex's suggestion will work for whole files, but I'm not sure that's what you meant? Are you trying to remove entries over two months old from within the files, leaving entries after that period intact?

 

[sivatek]

Hi

I want to remove the entries which are 2 months old, rest of the file should be intact

Thanks

 

[admincff]

find /var/spool/mail -name "*" -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

 

[betoneto]

Hi
I need to redirecting root´s mail talking about enviromental problem to an external SMTP server (Lotus Notes account).
How can I do this?

OS version = 5100
Regards


HS

 

[gui95]

create a file /.forward containing the mail address.

regards,

Guillaume.

 

[sbix]

mail are stored in a unique file per user ... the only way is to write something which can read the mailbox file .... but this is a privacy violation .... not very legal ... really dangerous by the legal view point for you (if mail in these mailboxes are something human related)

 

[sbix]

you can try something like this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cd /var/spool/mail
MBOXES=$(ls)
for USER in $MBOXES
do
nmess=$(echo q|mail -f $USER|grep $USER|grep messages|grep unread|awk '{print $4}')
if [ x$nmess != "x" ];then
echo f1-$nmess|mail -f $USER|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f1-7 > messages_header.$USER
fi
done

In the messages_header.$USER you will have only the number of the messages, the sender and the date of sending .... then you will have to extract the list of "aged message" and kill them by doing something like:
from=1st_message_to_kill
to=last_message_to_kill
echo "d${from}-${to}" > kill_messages.$USER
echo "q" >> kill_messages.$USER
mail -f $USER < kill_messages.$USER