topic Re: Removing mails more than 1 day in Operating System - Linux

Removing mails more than 1 day

Henry Chua — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:55:15 GMT

Hi guys,

I am using sendmails in my box, is there a way to remove mails more than a specified period of time? Thanks.

Best regards
Henry

Re: Removing mails more than 1 day

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:50:20 GMT

Shalom Henry,

That depends how you store them. If they are sitting in a file in /var/spool/mail raw, its difficult. You'd need to write a script to edit that file.

Need to know a little more about how the mail is stored to assist you.

SEP

Re: Removing mails more than 1 day

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:33:41 GMT

The important thing here is which MTA are you using (qmail, sendmail, postfix, exim, etc).

See this page:

http://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/CPAN/scripts/mailstuff/expire_mail.pl

Re: Removing mails more than 1 day

Emir Faisal — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:10:13 GMT

Hi,
...or you might want to change your sendmail behavior by set the Timeout.queuereturn to 1 day in your sendmail.mc or sendmail.cf. This behavior will send bounced message to sender if the message stay in the queue after 1 day.

for sendmail.mc:
dnl define('confTO_QUEUERETURN', '1d')dnl
then run m4 macro to regenerate sendmail.cf and put it in the right location (/etc/sendmail.cf ?).

for sendmail.cf:
O Timeout.queuereturn=1d

either way, don't forget to restart sendmail daemon.

EF