Delete Emails On Sever Older Than

I have set up a DIY CCTV system - Linksys Cameras send emails on
detecting movement to a Gmail account. The system works well but it
means that I have to log on to my Gmail account to delete the emails to
stop the mailbox filling up. Is there anyway I could automatically
delete emails older than say two weeks?

>I have set up a DIY CCTV system - Linksys Cameras send emails on
> detecting movement to a Gmail account. The system works well but it means
> that I have to log on to my Gmail account to delete the emails to stop the
> mailbox filling up. Is there anyway I could automatically delete emails
> older than say two weeks?

I have no idea if you can do it with the Web interface.
There is no problem recieving Gmail with a POP3
client like Outlook/Outlook Express using Port 995 ssl

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"Graham." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ga81bh$qtu$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I have set up a DIY CCTV system - Linksys Cameras send emails on
>> detecting movement to a Gmail account. The system works well but it means
>> that I have to log on to my Gmail account to delete the emails to stop
>> the mailbox filling up. Is there anyway I could automatically delete
>> emails older than say two weeks?
>
> I have no idea if you can do it with the Web interface.
> There is no problem recieving Gmail with a POP3
> client like Outlook/Outlook Express using Port 995 ssl
>
> --
> Graham.
>
> %Profound_observation%
>
I can log on Ok with any POP3 client and delete them by hand but I was
wondering if there was any way to do it automatically. I have a server
running 24/7 and it would be nice to have a small program on there that
logged onto my gmail account once a day and deleted all emails older than 2
weeks.

"Steve Summers" <not-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ga8ec6$2c4$(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Graham." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ga81bh$qtu$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>I have set up a DIY CCTV system - Linksys Cameras send emails on
>>> detecting movement to a Gmail account. The system works well but it
>>> means that I have to log on to my Gmail account to delete the emails to
>>> stop the mailbox filling up. Is there anyway I could automatically
>>> delete emails older than say two weeks?
>>
>> I have no idea if you can do it with the Web interface.
>> There is no problem recieving Gmail with a POP3
>> client like Outlook/Outlook Express using Port 995 ssl
>>

> I can log on Ok with any POP3 client and delete them by hand but I was
> wondering if there was any way to do it automatically. I have a server
> running 24/7 and it would be nice to have a small program on there that
> logged onto my gmail account once a day and deleted all emails older than
> 2 weeks.


Your email client (what are you using) needs to send a DELE command
followed by the message sequence number of the messages flagged to
expire.

In Outlook / OE this is all done invisibly by ticking the appropriate
boxes, and setting the number of days retention, in the advanced properties
of the account.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Steve Summers wrote:
> "Graham." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ga81bh$qtu$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>> I have set up a DIY CCTV system - Linksys Cameras send emails on
>>> detecting movement to a Gmail account. The system works well but it
>>> means that I have to log on to my Gmail account to delete the emails
>>> to stop the mailbox filling up. Is there anyway I could automatically
>>> delete emails older than say two weeks?
>>
>> I have no idea if you can do it with the Web interface.
>> There is no problem recieving Gmail with a POP3
>> client like Outlook/Outlook Express using Port 995 ssl
>>
>> --
>> Graham.
>>
>> %Profound_observation%
>>
> I can log on Ok with any POP3 client and delete them by hand but I was
> wondering if there was any way to do it automatically. I have a server
> running 24/7 and it would be nice to have a small program on there that
> logged onto my gmail account once a day and deleted all emails older
> than 2 weeks.

Its a snap if its Linux: just run fetchmail and pull them all down, and
either let them grow locally, or run a cron job to remove/archive them.