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Linux & Maildir: What's a simple way to move messages from the Cron Daemon out of the inbox for safe keeping? They're causing clutter. (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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My user account on linux gets some Cron Jobs among mail from humans. I don't want to see the cron messages.

How can I script it so they are moved out of the "inbox" view (for example, on Squirrel Mail or my mobile client)?

I can grep for root@<domain> (Cron Daemon) to find the files that are emails from Cron. But I don't know how to actually process them from here.

Edit: they are using dovecot here, in case that makes a difference. Messages appear as files in the format:
1696857026.V902I580559fM559719.<domain>.de:2,

Edit 2: I have learned that the trailing S can be appended to a filename to mark it as read (or Seen), so I just need to know how to move it from the inbox to somewhere safe now.

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[–] oshu@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not reconfigure cron not to send the unwanted messages?

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t have root. Otherwise that would be ideal.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it would be better to have people pipe their mails into a rotated log dir, so you only get critical errors.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t have root though