On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Low Taek Jho wrote:
> space. Any ideas how I could let the mails keep on comming in without my
> server deleting it? thanks./.
A few years ago, I set up a cron job, which made a cp of the mailbox
directory '/var/spool/mail/djr' to a local directory. Then reset the
mailbox by cat'ing /dev/null onto it. Then finally gzip -9 the copy of
the mailbox file. I used 'date' to give me a different filename every
night. It worked ok.
Nowadays I use procmail, and when I go away, I set it to compress my
folders after filing messages into them. The man pages explain how to do
this.
The filesystem where my $HOME is, is much bigger than /var/spool/mail.
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