Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 Pieter Blaauw spewed into the ether: > Hi guys > > How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with > Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual > /var/spool/mail/<username> > > Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 into another big file > that I could use as a backup of last years mail. I have over a thousand > messages in it so doing it manually is pretty impossible. I'd like to keep > the messages for this month so far in the maildir otherwise I could have > easily just moved the /var/spool/mail/<username> somewhere as a backup and > problem solved.
Not a perl solution, but I'm sure Pine has some way of tagging/moving messages according to a specific pattern. Under Mutt, it's quite easy, and IMHO, you'll be better served by your MUA rather than perl. pv. ps. Another thing, it may not be such a good idea to leave your mail in the spool directory. It makes more sense to save it in your home directory ( ~/Email, say). Simply because you always have control over your own home directory. -- Prahlad Vaidyanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Don't talk to me about disclaimers! I invented disclaimers!" -- The Censored Hacker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
