Need serious help...

[buddysal]

Ok,

I need to either write a php script or shell script the will dump or delete all of the emails in an inbox once an hour using a cron job..

Here is the current shell script and cron job setup I was told to use, but I dont understand how its doing anything, and its definately not deleting my emails.

Shell script setup:
filename: maildump.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo > /home/username/.neomail-safelist/username/inbox

Cron job setup:
0 /1 /bin/sh /home/username/maildump.sh

I know there has to be more to it.. I dunno if any of you know anything about shell scripts, any help is greatly appriciated.

[dewen]

you may missing another script(or another way) which read(dump) from the inbox. All I see is empty the inbox.

[Lars]

If your mails are stored in a database (or a text file), just write a PHP script, which will delete the needed contents (either in the database or in the file) once in a while.
Try a check construction. So that every time you log in, the script checks whether there is any mail in the inbox, and, if yes, and if more than an hour has passed, delete everything. Then set the time to 0 again.