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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:54:06AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> 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.
> 
Is that mutt's header caches?  If so I don't tend to leave mutt
running all the time, I assume it refreshes things whenever it's
started does it?

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Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)