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I tend to clear out large chunks of email all at once. The most common thing I do is clear out all mail older than 30 days.
In mutt do the following:
Shift-D to delete messages matching a pattern. This will return a prompt
that says Delete messages matching:.~d …Posted on in Software
I recently needed to tag the first 5,389 messages in a mailbox using Mutt. This is much easier than you might think.
shift-t - By default, the command to tag messages based on a pattern
is bound to shift-t. If you've changed this in your muttrc, use whatever
you've bound …Posted on in System Administration
I've dealt with a few servers that have long lived popper (POP3) processes. These processes should be closed once the connection is closed, but they occasionally hang around. Once they get in this state, they will never close on their own. After a while, hundreds of these processes will just …
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One of the beauties of using a Linux-based Mail Transport Agent (MTA) like Sendmail is the ability to pipe mail into programs. You can use this in conjunction with a filtering application like procmail, with a custom application that collects data about the email, or anything else you can imagine …
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Somehow, I have let my Gmail inbox get totally out of control. I don't know if it was the holidays or what, but as of this morning, I had over 800 unread messages in my Gmail inbox. I decided a little while ago that it was time to focus on …
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Email communication has become so common, users often forget that there is no inherent security in the common implementation. For general correspondence it might be acceptable to forsake security in the interest of ease of use. After all, the sharing of recipes between old friends is not always a matter …
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A colleague of mine is not fond of backup <acronym title="Mail eXchange">MX</acronym> hosts. He (correctly) points out that all incoming mail should be transmitted through another mail server anyway, so the backup MX hosts only serves as an attack point for spammers.
For the most part I …
