[asterisk-users] Delete voicemail after couple of days

[Steve Edwards]

Un-top-posting...

> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson 
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:33 PM

> Write up a small shell script that uses 'find 
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/ -mtime +2' for a list of files older than 
> two days assuming you want ALL files deleted older than two days. You 
> could always grep that output if you only wanted to delete voicemail 
> that is not still in the INBOX or elsewhere. Anyways, then use -exec to 
> rm the files. If the goal was to remove all files, it might look 
> something like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> find /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/ -mtime +2 -exec rm {}\;
>
> Run that from cron once a day/hour/whatever and you're set.

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> Tim, this is a partial solution.  The find as written would remove
> greetings, unavailable messages, etc.  You would need to add a grep to get
> only msg files.

Skip the grep...

 	sudo find /var/spool/asterisk/ -mtime +2 -name "msg*" -exec rm {} \;

(Note the space after the closing brace.)

But Carlos had the best answer.

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Carlos Chavez wrote:

> I did not catch all the messages on this thread but why not use the 
> messages-expire.pl script included in Asterisk for this simple task? 
> It will delete and renumber all messages and you can program how many 
> days before a message is deleted.

Why re-invent the wheel. This script is way more flexible than a 1-liner. 
(Note that Asterisk will renumber the messages for you automagically in 
case you decide to cobble up your own script.)

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