[SOLVED] bash script - save mailbox messages.

[mactruck]

I would like to create a script that will run every day and save all the messages in the inbox and save them to a file then delete the old messages.
Right now I am doing this manually and would like this automated. This is how I am doing it now.

I go to my mail archive folder and type:
mail
> s 1-### mbox.temp###
> d 1-###
> q

Now if the number of messages were the same everyday then I would be able to do this a lot easier. Since I dont know if there is any wild cards I could use for the total number of messages does anyone know another way to do this?

Thanks

[dayid]

#!/bin/sh
cp mbox mbox.`date +%F` && gzip mbox.`date +%F` && : > mbox

That would copy the current mbox to a new file (gzip it - just because saving space doesn't hurt), then clear the old mbox. You could just create a file with those contents and run it once daily via cron.

[mactruck]

well I know this is old but I figured out how to do it. It was so simple I feel bad that I didn't think of it sooner. The good new is I have automated this process and removed it from my daily tasks.

first i run

cp /var/spool/mail/<username> newmail.file

to save the email to a file called newmail.file
then I run

> /var/spool/mail/<username>

to delete the mail