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From: osas@worldnet.att.net (Tim White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: filtering /var/mail by message age?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:06:26 GMT
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On 22 Jan 1997 03:44:16 GMT, feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed)
wrote:

>In article <853886855.3462@dejanews.com>, ab203@freenet.durham.org wrote:
>>We are running FreeBSD 2.X and have /var/mail files that are becoming 
>>rather large and would like to filter this directory for each user based 
>>on message age.  
>


  I saw a reference to this the other day. Look for expire_mail in the
perl archives.  Have not had time to look for  it myself.