crontab to remove email from a mailbox every 24 hrs?

[estado3]

what is a simple cron tab to remove every 24 hrs emails in a mailbox called
mailbox on path /.neomail/mailbox ?

thanks

 

[dragonbooster]

Following are the steps for setting up the cron to delete the mails from mailbox:

create the file emptymail box
cd /home/username/www
pico emptymailbox
type the following command in the file
echo > /home/username/path to mailbox
save your file
chmod 755
crontab -u username -e
set the following cron
0 0 * * * /home/username/www/emptymailbox
save the file

Please try this

 

[designeru]

... or a simpler solution...

add to /etc/crontab

0 0 * * * echo > /path_to_mailbox/

 

[yufool]

or:

simpler yet under cPanel, you can set aging to 1 day.

 

[dragonbooster]

Thanks designneru and yufool for the simple solution.

Creating a separate file option can be use to set the multiple rules at one place so no need to set the different cron for each action

 

[brianoz]

If you're using maildir rather than the older mailbox, you'll need something like this:

find /.neomail/mailbox -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f

which will remove all email older than 1 day, probably more what you want rather than just throwing it all out.

(Maildir email format stores mail as separate files, mailbox format stores mail concatenated all in one file)