On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:33:53PM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > A fine-grained rotation scheme might work better; e.g. I could have
> > a primary folder that holds the last 3 months of messages, and an
> > archive folder that holds everything else.
> 
> I have a script scan all my mailspools (I use mbox) and move anything
> older than a week to archive/<year>/<mailbox>/<month>-<year>-<mailbox> -
> this keeps my active mail easily to hand, and searching for older mail's
> as easy as I need it to be.
> 
> This is pretty similar to your idea, only it uses mbox and saves to a
> more structured format.

How does it scan your mailboxes, does it use grep mail or some other
methods? If its short could you perhaps post it?

TIA

> 
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> time I found out that M&Ms really DO melt in your hand.
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