Re: I need a script for deleting mail from mail boxes...

At 16:08 9-12-03, you wrote:

Hi All, I need to know how to write a script for deleting mail from a Linux server. It's more important to know what sort of mail it is. I suppose POP3 mail, so then look for the POP class of Manuel Lemos, i think on phpclasses.org.

Essentially I need to be able to delete all mail with a date-stamp less than some threshold date. That should be do-able with that class.

Then I want this script to run from a regular cron job. I am not sure if this is doable in PHP or whether I must write a shell script, but either way I need some pointers on how to go about it. There are quite some tutorials on cron jobs with PHP. To run PHP as a cron job you need the cgi version, as far as I know. Ask your favourite search engine.