Cron -> Too Much Email

Posted in Computers & Technology, Spam by Elliott Back on June 30th, 2007.

My cron-jobs are spamming me, as I just got home to at least a thousand emails from the cron daemon alone:

I also have 35,000 emails in my Thunderbird which are notifications of new comments on various blogs which I will be deleting ASAP. Even a Mozilla product starts to get slow after too much data. How do you guys deal with all the automatic email-spam these days? I filter it to different places, of course, but it still builds up over time.

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Kerim Satirli 1 year ago 1 point
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I actually have my scripts set up so that I only get mail if there's a problem. No problem means no email. However, most scripts are set to send a weekly (sometimes monthly) mail so that I know that the script is still active

Comments? I track them via RSS, tried CoComment or just make a quick bookmark and track them manually for a few days

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http://www.lifeofacoder.com/

Kenny 1 year ago 1 point
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With regards to e-mail build-up over time: I usually find time (about twice a month) to just go through my mailboxes and purge the automated messages. Kinda tedious, but it doesn't bother me much since many of them have already been categorized.

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Bas Westerbaan 1 year ago 1 point
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Filter it out server-side.

Or, almost as simple with for instance procmail, create a script that creates a digest of all certain mail.

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http://blog.w-nz.com/