Email question

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:52:15 -0400


I suppose I could try to get MUTT to add an extra header that has
an expiration date, then run a nightly script that went through
and trimmed all my email files, but that seems like a PITA.

Quoted from Cory Spitz on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:50:02PM -0500:
> That's a really cool idea!  Very creative.
> 
> Well, you might be able to implement that yourself easily if your mail
> messages are kept in separate files (or dirs).  This could be more
> difficult if everything is thrown into an mbox though.  Hmm...
> 
> -Cory
> 
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, do any email programs out there allow you
> > to specify an expiration date for messages?  Like "delete this in
> > 3 days" or "delete this at the end of the month"?  Seems like
> > something that should have been added long ago to every email
> > program in existance, but I haven't seen it yet...
> >
> >
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Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu
GLLUG Peon  				http://www.gllug.org
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
                -- Jules de Gaultier