script to cleanup email

[Gary Glick]

Howday all,
Can anyone think of a way to cleanup system email to say the root user without being able to invoke mailx or elm, etc. like parse an email file and selectively keep or discard messages based on some certain criteria, received date, sender, etc.

This isn't a high priority, I can always move/delete the /var/mail/root file out of the way and start new, or I could extend /tmp so I can actually open the file (over 300MB). I was just thinking that if I could do some general cleanup from a script it would save me some time in the long run.

Thanks

Gary

[Mel Burslan]

I think what you need is something like procmail. Check this page for download and some information about it:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/procmail-3.22/

HTH

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I run a script once a week on 9000 and Linux servers.

it does this:

> /var/mail/root

And for any other users I don't want to receive the mail for.

It would seem you need a larger /var filesystem for this situation.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

Here are some perl scripts that allows you to do that:

www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.funet.fi/ pub/languages/perl/CPAN/scripts/mailstuff/expire_mail.pl

http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1995/0297.html

http://www.kenjun.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=875

[Bill Hassell]

procmail is available from HP too (along with lots of other tools):

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1111