On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:49:17PM +0100, bastian-muttu...@t6l.de wrote:
> On 27Nov15 16:33 +0200, Danny wrote:
> > O.k ... I tried various combinations but it does not seem to work
> > 
> > folder-hook .FreeBSD push 
> > 'T~s>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter> is
> > what I tried last ...
> 
> Right. Of course I inserted some typo.  ~s is the metachar for the
> subject of the mail. Try it with a ~d which corresponds to the date
> received.
> 
>   folder-hook .FreeBSD push 
> 'T~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter>
> 
> Watch out:
> The first argument to folder-hook is a regexpr. So be careful with that.
> .FreeBSD will (most probably) match both of your mailboxes FreeBSD and
> FreeBSD-OLD.
> 
> Better try first:
> 
>   folder-hook FreeBSD$ push 
> 'T~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter>
> 
> Here, the '$' marks the end of a line, thus the folder FreeBSD-OLD will
> not be matched.
> 
Nice Bastian, I may also have a use for something like this.

One thought, if I'm away for a week or more this would archive several
days of unread mail.  Adding a simple ~R to the pattern seems to
eliminate this concern.  Are there any side-effects I overlook?

  folder-hook FreeBSD$ push 
'T~R~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter>

Jon
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