On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:25:55PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:17:58PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > > Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of > > > > external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages > > > > older than a certain date? > > > > > > > > My ideal would be a tool that I could run either manually (or maybe > > > > from cron, but that might be a bit daring) which would select all > > > > messages in my ~/Mail hierarchy older than a specified date and move > > > > them to an archive area with the same hierarchy. > > > > > > > > Second best would be a tool which would simply delete such messages as > > > > one could copy the whole hierarchy first. > > > > > > > > It's fairly easy (?) to do such a thing for one mailbox/folder but I > > > > really need to do it for a fairly deep hierachy of messages. Doing it > > > > folder by folder would be painful. > > > > > > I use Archivemail (http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/) to do exactly > > > what you > > > describe. > > > > > > It runs from a nightly cronjob and archives mail older than (in my case) > > > 180 > > > days (roughly 6 months). > > > > > > I use mbox format - I'm not sure about maildir but it works just fine for > > > me! > > > > > I looked at Archivemail but it only archives specified mailboxes > > doesn't it, it won't run down through a hierarchy of mailboxes. My > > hierarchy has 3293 mailboxes in it (even I didn't realise there are > > *that* many until I looked!), I'm not going to archive that lot by > > hand! > > Well I set it up so long ago (we're talking years!) that I've forgotten the > details... > This is my crontab entry: (mind the linewrap) > 50 3 * * * archivemail -o ~/Mail/Archive/ ~/Mail/* ~/Mail/Malware/* > ~/Mail/MLists/* ~/Mail/Admin/* ~/Mail/Misc/* > > Now as it happens none of those top level directories go down beyond 1 level, > but each of them does have several sub-directories, each of which gets > archived as expected. > I guess it's archiving all the folders/mailboxes that are addressed by ~/Mail/MLists/* and similar. I suppose I could do something like that because my hierarchy isn't all *that* deep. I could even use things like ~/Mail/*/* though I'm not sure if that wouldn't catch too much in some cases.
> I'll have to look at, or experiment with, deeper levels - sorry I don't know > the answer of the top of my head... > > Regards > > Mark > -- Chris Green
