[sylpheed:35443] [SOLVED] Re: Re: Expire trash?

[Dennis Carr]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:14:37 -0700
Dennis Carr <dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net> wrote:

> Then I'm going to play with a few things in bash for a bit, involving
> for and find, for a way to do this in *nix.  I'll come back with a
> good recipe.  I think it'd be something like 'find ~/Mail/trash
> -ctime +nn -erase' where nn is expiry days.

And solved it.  In a cron job, do this:

x x * * * rm `find /path/to/Trash-folder -ctime +31 -type f`
2> /dev/null

...where x in the cron column is minutes and hours respectively.  Pick
your time. =)  Also, I use 31 for anything over 30 days; adjust
accordingly to your tastes.

Caveat: this works only in Linux and relies heavily on bash syntax.
I'm not familiar with any other shell....7

The 2> /dev/null is because of something else- if
there's nothing older than ctime +31, there's nothing to rm and you
will get an error in your email otherwise.

-Dennis