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We want to setup Archiving on the server. So the plan we have come up with goes something like this:
We have archiving turned on with:

Then the plan was to do sxboxexp on the mailbox once a month to an offsite storage location. So if something came up we could simply restore the email a month at a time to temporary mailboxes on the server.

My question is after I do the sxboxexp, I want to empty the archive mailbox so it only ever holds the current months email. After it exports, delete all of it and start fresh. I can't find an option in sxboxemp to remove exported email. So is there some other simple way to delete all the mail in a user's mailbox?

Thanks!
David

Hi,

Have a read of the man page for omtidyu, it may do what you want with the right options.

Regards,
Danny

Thanks! Here is what I ended up using.

I will just run this after my smboxexp.

Thanks again,
David

If you really want to be complete, stop the Local Delivery service before you export the data, and leave it stopped until after you've emptied the mailbox. That way there's no fear that you might lose something between the processes running. I suspect this is happening afterhours, so pausing the LD service won't really impact anything.

Kev.

Something like this:


I also assume that by doing this the server will still receive mail just not deliver it to mailboxes?


Just for fun here is the simple script:


I have it run on the 1st day of every month at 12:01 AM.

Thanks for the Help,
David

David,

thanks alot for posting your archive & delete script. I have one question. In the line of code:

DATE=`date +"%B_%Y"`

You use the charter ` What keyboard combination do you use to get this charter? I have run across this in other scripts and haven't found out out to create it.

Thanks

jillrae

jillrae wrote:You use the charter ` What keyboard combination do you use to get this charter? I have run across this in other scripts and haven't found out out to create it.

To the left of the number 1 key and above the tab key. A shift gets you a tilde ~ and no shift is the tick ` mark.

Thank you. I can now "tick" with the best of 'em! :-)

jillrae