[sylpheed:35295] Re: Expire trash?

Dennis Carr dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net
Thu Jun 14 04:14:37 JST 2012


On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:48:34 +0200
Ricardo Mones <mones at debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:51:02 -0700
> Dennis Carr <dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net> wrote:
> 
> > I can't find an option to expire trash - that is, after nn days,
> > remove items from trash.  Does such a thing exist?
> 
>   Nope. Currently you can empty trash on exit, with optional
> confirmation (see Common preferences, "Details" tab, "Other" tab, "On
> exit" pane).

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.

-Dennis


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