Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
On Sep 20, 2022, at 8:18 AM, Tom R wrote:
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> I would be ok with symlinks or hardlinks; but symlinks are better since I
> could
> quickly find which folder the msg first landed in.
You can use a sequence to keep track of which folder a message came
from. Then you just have to run a function like
msg2seq() { grep "\<$1\>" .mh_sequences|sed 's/:.*//'}
to reverse map a msg to the sequence(s) it is part of. One benefit
is MH will maintain them properly as you rmm, sortm old messages etc.
Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
Tom> I had mairix installed; and I was doing that -- except that I did not Tom> have a script to easily update the list of all my folders. Yep, you need that alright! I've got it running on cron. Best, Conrad
Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
On Sep 20, 2022, at 1:14 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> On Sep 20, 2022, at 8:18 AM, Tom R wrote:
>>
>> I would be ok with symlinks or hardlinks; but symlinks are better since I
>> could
>> quickly find which folder the msg first landed in.
>
> You can use a sequence to keep track of which folder a message came
> from. Then you just have to run a function like
>
> msg2seq() { grep "\<$1\>" .mh_sequences|sed 's/:.*//'}
>
> to reverse map a msg to the sequence(s) it is part of. One benefit
> is MH will maintain them properly as you rmm, sortm old messages etc.
Forgot to add: if you remove a message from a source folder,
your all folder will have a dangling symlink. This can be a
pro or a con depending on your PoV! Similarly if you move
messages around in the source folder, the symlinks will point
to the wrong messages.
Another way they help is you can define sequences day1..day31.
Then from cron you just have to delete today's sequence instead of
blowing everything away!
Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
thanks for the help Conrad and Ralph! Hi Conrad: On Tue 9/13/22 15:55 +0100 Conrad Hughes wrote: >> I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to >> have, an 'all' folder that is built by a shell script that could be >> called by cron daily. I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last >> 21 days. > >Install mairix. Then > > mairix d:21d- > >will fill your +s (or whatever you choose to call it) folder with >symlinks to emails from the last 21 days. It'll do a whole lot more >though since it's a general search engine. It can even index compressed >.mmdf archives: it's *great*. I had mairix installed; and I was doing that -- except that I did not have a script to easily update the list of all my folders. I now have something to update ~/.mairixrc with a list of "all" my folders. I use something like: find ~/Mail -mount -maxdepth 2 -type d -mtime -600 | perl -pe 's~^.*?/Mail/?~~' | sort # ... pipeline continues ending in a ":" join Hi Ralph: On Tue 9/13/22 17:56 +0100 Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to have, an >> 'all' >> folder that is built by a shell script that could be called by cron daily. >> I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last 21 days. Perhaps this script >> would remove bad symlinks in 'all' each time it runs. > >You're implying you want the ‘files’ in +all to be symlinks rather than >hard links? refile(1) can make hard links with -link. I would be ok with symlinks or hardlinks; but symlinks are better since I could quickly find which folder the msg first landed in. >I'd have thought useful parts would be: > >rmf +all >folder -create +all > >folder +foo && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all >folder +bar && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all OK, so I would have to walk through all the folders one by one and run pick. How about a soln something like rmf +all folder -create +all find ~/Mail -mtime -21 -type f -not -empty -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*/[0-9]+$' |xargs _addmsgs2-nmh-all-folder sortm +all Could the script _addmsgs2-nmh-all-folder use refile? It seems refile does not create soft links. I got the soft link thing from mairx I think -- nice because I can find the orignal folder for the msg easily. If _addmsgs2-nmh-all-folder did not use refile, my hunch is I could "rmf +all;folder -create +all", then add symlinks in naming the first "1", etc; then nmh would magically fix .mh_sequences -- Right? When/how? Maybe sortm +all would repair .mh_sequences? >sortm +all > >If you want symlinks and you want to preserve +all from one run to the >next but remove the symlinks to files which are now too old whilst >adding those which are new then comm(1) would be handy. ok, thanks, I've used comm from time to time. I'm ok with clobbering/rebuilding all though. >> **In this way I could use sort and 'scan' to list the nmh 'all' folder >> msgs sorted by time.** > >One has wondered about the separation of email files into folders and >sequences, the overlap between the two, and most commands only working >within a single folder. Right. Maybe there should be a built in way to get at all msgs. -- thanks, Tom
Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
Hi Tom, > I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to have, an > 'all' > folder that is built by a shell script that could be called by cron daily. > I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last 21 days. Perhaps this script > would remove bad symlinks in 'all' each time it runs. You're implying you want the ‘files’ in +all to be symlinks rather than hard links? refile(1) can make hard links with -link. I'd have thought useful parts would be: rmf +all folder -create +all folder +foo && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all folder +bar && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all sortm +all If you want symlinks and you want to preserve +all from one run to the next but remove the symlinks to files which are now too old whilst adding those which are new then comm(1) would be handy. > **In this way I could use sort and 'scan' to list the nmh 'all' folder > msgs sorted by time.** One has wondered about the separation of email files into folders and sequences, the overlap between the two, and most commands only working within a single folder. -- Cheers, Ralph.
Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
> I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to > have, an 'all' folder that is built by a shell script that could be > called by cron daily. I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last > 21 days. Install mairix. Then mairix d:21d- will fill your +s (or whatever you choose to call it) folder with symlinks to emails from the last 21 days. It'll do a whole lot more though since it's a general search engine. It can even index compressed .mmdf archives: it's *great*. Conrad
'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?
I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to have, an 'all' folder that is built by a shell script that could be called by cron daily. I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last 21 days. Perhaps this script would remove bad symlinks in 'all' each time it runs. **In this way I could use sort and 'scan' to list the nmh 'all' folder msgs sorted by time.** Has someone already done this or the equivalent? Ideas/comments? -- thanks, Tom
