expiring mail from root's Maildirs?

[Tanstaafl]

On Fri May 04 2018 10:59:22 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), LuKreme
<kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> The mail is crontab mail that is sent out to users via mutt. What would be the "right” way to do this? (The cron tasks run as root because they are scanning system logs on behalf of certain users and those scans cannot be run as the user.)

Alias the local 'root' user to another account. This is best practice
anyway...