Re: Handling Email Output

[Tod Oace]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:35, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> Has anyone come up with a clever way to take the email and archive it, 
> so that it can be retained for a time and then rotated out after a 
> certain period of time.
>
> I'm sure I can craft something using procmail, and logrotate but 
> wondering if others had suggestions or interesting ways they've 
> handled the issue.

I use procmail:

:0c
/var/spool/rootmail/`date +%Y-%m-%d`

and cfengine:

tidy:
        # Clean out old archived root mail:
        machine_with_the_archive::
                /var/spool/rootmail
                        include=*
                        recurse=1
                        age=180
                        ifelapsed=1440  # daily

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Tod Oace, Intel Corporation <tod@intel.com>