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  From: Adam Hawes <adam@overfiend.freeservers.com>
  To  : Wong Jen Choong, Jimmy <jimmy@asiatic.com.my>
  Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:08:32 +0000

Re: /var/spool/mail

"Wong Jen Choong, Jimmy" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have check through the /var/spool/mail directory and found that users
> have mail of over 10MB stored under their name.  When I asked them to
> retrieve their mail, there is no new mails.  Why is that the spool is
> still keeping their old mails?  Is there any way for me to reduce that
> amount of space?
> 
> --

Have a look on freshmeat - there was a program on there that I saw that
does what you are looking for. It deletes read mail from a users spool
if it is older than its threshold. It warns the users to save their
mail first, however. Could do the trick.

Serach for "mail spool" and you will get a couple of programs that
appear to suit your need :-)

Hope this helps,
Adam

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