Handling old mail

[John Chew]

In <1990Jul3.130104.18250 at dircon.uucp> sys0001 at dircon.uucp () writes:
>What I'm looking for is a program which looks at a user's mailbox file
>(in /usr/spool/mail) and transfers all messages older than, say, a month
>to a specified file in the user's own home directory. 

This by itself will not deter a reasonably intelligent disk hog.  All I'd
have to do is keep my multi-megabyte tar file in my mailbox and re-mail it
to myself every few weeks.  

John
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