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тАО06-07-2005 05:55 AM
тАО06-07-2005 05:55 AM
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тАО06-07-2005 07:06 AM
тАО06-07-2005 07:06 AM
Re: purge mail script for HP-UX 11?
You can zero them completely:
for i in `find / -name mbox`
do
> $i
done
Rgds...Geoff
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тАО06-08-2005 01:31 AM
тАО06-08-2005 01:31 AM
Re: purge mail script for HP-UX 11?
Example:
echo "x" |mailx -u gwild
That will print a list of mail in gwild's mailbox...
If you:
echo "d *" |mailx -u gwild
That will delete all mail in gwild's mbox...
echo "x *" |mailx -u gwild|grep messages |awk '{print $2}'
will tell you how many messages are in gwild's mbox...
Say the result is 116,
echo "d 1-100" |mailx -u gwild
That will delete the first 100 messages in gwild's mbox....
man mailx for more info...
I can't see a way (yet) to do this by date...
Rgds...Geoff
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тАО06-08-2005 01:45 AM
тАО06-08-2005 01:45 AM
Re: purge mail script for HP-UX 11?
http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/
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тАО06-08-2005 01:48 AM
тАО06-08-2005 01:48 AM
Re: purge mail script for HP-UX 11?
mailx -H -u gwild |grep -v Jun |wc -l
That will tell you how many messages older then Jun (say current month)
So, a simple script:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 1 -o \( $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 \) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "delmail \"userid\""
echo "Example:"
echo "delmail root"
exit 1
fi
echo " "
USER=$1
E=`mailx -H -u $USER |grep -v Jun |wc -l`
echo "d1-$E" |mailx -u $USER
Rgds...Geoff
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тАО06-08-2005 01:54 AM
тАО06-08-2005 01:54 AM
Solution#!/bin/sh
# script to delete mail older then current month
# gwild
if [ $# -lt 1 -o \( $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 \) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "delmail \"userid\""
echo "Example:"
echo "delmail root"
exit 1
fi
DATE=`date +%b`
USER=$1
E=`mailx -H -u $USER |grep -v $DATE |wc -l`
echo "d1-$E" |mailx -u $USER