You may also want to look at archivemail: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/ , which I've used when my work email account becomes too large.
Joss On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:00:21AM +0100, Tomasz Żok wrote: > Hi nanooq, > > On 2016-01-18 at 18:21, [email protected] wrote: > > how do I sort emails into monthly folders? > > This seems to be a question outside of OfflineIMAP scope, but briefly saying, > there are two ways to go. > > If you want it done manually from time to time, it is a responsibility of your > e-mail client to let you select messages older than 6 months. In mutt, you can > press "T" to tag messages and write criterion like: ~r -01/07/15 This will > select all e-mails you have ever received up to 1st of July 2015. Then you can > press "s" and save them in any folder as you please. OfflineIMAP will create > that folder remotely upon next synchronization. > > If you want it to happen automatically for new e-mail (because for messages > already received, you will have to do the manual sorting anyway), I believe it > depends on which IMAP server you work with and if it allows such use case. For > example, if the IMAP server has support for Sieve, you can write some kind of > script to work the way you want it. Below is an example from Sieve > documentation: (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5260) require ["date", > "relational", "fileinto"]; if anyof(date :is "received" "weekday" "0", date > :is "received" "weekday" "6") { fileinto "weekend"; } > > That's not exactly what you asked for, but as you can see, Sieve extension > described in RFC 5260 allows you to use dates of e-mails in the rules. I > haven't used it myself, but I think it's possible to file messages into > 2016-01, 2016-02, and so on automatically. > > > I personally prefer the Inbox Zero way where I put every e-mail already > handled into a special archive folder and keep Inbox empty. If the archive > folder ever gets too big, I sort it the manual way but in a yearly fashion > (archive-2011, archive-2012, ...). Maybe it depends on the volume of e-mail > you get, but for me a separate folder for every month would be more of a > problem than solution :). > > Hope it answers your questions and helps you, regards, Tomasz > > _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing > list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project > > OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - > http://offlineimap.org -- Joss Wright | @JossWright http://www.pseudonymity.net _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
