Deleting old maildir messages, is what I'm doing OK?

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 04:21:11PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>I currently have the following two lines in my crontab to delete old
>mails in my junk catching directories, is it OK/safe to do it like
>this?
>
>    20 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/cur -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
>    30 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/new -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

That should be fine.  The only caveat is header caching.  If you delete 
messages outside of mutt, those messages won't be removed from the 
header cache.  Probably not a big deal for "junk catching" folders, but 
once in a while you may want to regenerate your header caches.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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