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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!feisal From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: filtering /var/mail by message age? Date: 22 Jan 1997 03:44:16 GMT Organization: University of the West Indies Lines: 15 Message-ID: <slrn5eb3pr.pt.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> References: <853886855.3462@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cuscon10.tstt.net.tt X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34403 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. Not sure how that can be accomplished, but you can set quotas for your users so that the mail files are limited in size. I use such a setup and it works fine. -Feisal -- Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.