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messages-expire.pl
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messages-expire finds messages more than X days old and deletes them.
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Because the older messages will be the lower numbers in the folder (msg0000
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will be older than msg0005), just deleting msg0000 will not work.
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expire-messages then runs a routine that goes into every folder in every
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mailbox to reorganize. If the folder contains msg0000, no action is taken.
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If the folder does not, the rename routine takes the oldest message and
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names it msg0000, the next oldest message and names it msg0001 and so on.
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The file deletion is done by the -exec parameter to 'find'. It would be far
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more efficient to take the output from 'find' and just reorganize the
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directories from which we deleted a file. Something for the future...
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Keep in mind that messages are deleted at the beginning of the script you
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will have mailbox trouble if you check messages before the script
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reorganizes your mailbox.
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To use it, make sure the paths are right. Adjust $age (originally set to
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31) if necessary.
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