Re: Purging old locally-cached messages

["Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra@fastmail.fm>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:51:48 +0800
James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to remove the locally-cached copies of messages that
> are older than, say, six months. I had hoped that deleting messages
> from the gmail server (whether through wanderlust or the gm web
> interface) and syncing the inbox would also clean up the cache
> files, but it seems no such luck.
> 
> I found a reference online to a cleanup utility for maildir, but no
> idea if that would apply to my ~/.elmo folder.
> 
> At worst, I could use "find" to identify files that are too old and
> pipe that to xargs -0 rm. This will leave some empty directories
> behind but at least reclaim some disk space.
> 
> Just hoping there's a tidier way.

elmo-cache-expire-by-age ?

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Herbert J. Skuhra