Automatic deletion of old spam emails

Automatic deletion of old spam emails in Junkmail folder

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Author(s): Jesper Knudsen at http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk
Contributor(s): Abe Loveless
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About this How To

Summary: A small perl script which deletes all users emails stored in the junkmail IMAP folder if they are older than $days_to_keep (default 10). Very useful in combination with SpamAssassin. The script only deletes email in the junkmail folder and ALSO those which have been marked "deleted" in an IMAP environment.

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Downloads: delete junkmail script http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/SpamAssassin/delete_junkmail.pl

How To

URL: Automatic deletion of old spam emails in Junkmail folder http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/SpamAssassin/

Installation instructions

• For SME 6

# cd /root
# wget http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/SpamAssassin/delete_junkmail.pl
# install -m 0755 delete_junkmail.pl /etc/cron.daily/

• For SME 5.6:

# cd /root
# wget http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/SpamAssassin/delete_junkmail56.pl
# install -m 0755 delete_junkmail56.pl /etc/cron.daily/

Within the script you can specify whether you want a daily report or not. The script can also be disabled if needed.

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