Re: [archivemail-user] Cronjob support

[Jon C. <li...@jc...>]

Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:19:09PM +0700, Tim Rice wrote:
>   
>> I'm new to Archivemail and I want to run Archiemail daily with a cronjob. I
>> have it working but wondered if there is a better way to handle checking
>> multiple accounts.
>>
>> I have over 150 poboxes I need to check. What I'm doing now is running this
>> file via crontab. Is there a better way?
>>
>> # Phuket
>> /usr/local/bin/archivemail --delete --days=30 --include-flagged
>> --preserve-unread /usr/boxes/gordonfe/asia-pacific-superyachts.com/pobox1
>> sleep 60
>> /usr/local/bin/archivemail --delete --days=30 --include-flagged
>> --preserve-unread /usr/boxes/gordonfe/asia-pacific-superyachts.com/pobox2
>> sleep 60
>>     
>
> [...]
>
> You can simply list multiple mailboxes on the command line.
>
> Nikolaus
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I do this in PHP, but it could be done in Bash, Perl, Python, etc:

<?php

$dirs = array("Spam", "Trash", "Sent");

foreach($dirs as $dir){
  $users = glob("/home/*");
  foreach($users as $user){
    $folder = $user . "/mail/" . $dir;
    if(file_exists($folder)){
      $attrib = stat($folder);
      if($attrib[7]>0){
        $bits = explode("/", $user);
        $uname = $bits[2];
        system("su - " . $uname . " -c \"/usr/bin/archivemail --quiet 
--delete --days=14 " . $folder . "\"");
      };
    };
  };
};

?>

Copyright 2010 Me, consider it GPLv3+ if it makes you feel better. :)

You could hack on this to make it way more configurable, you could make 
it run in parallel, etc.

-J

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