looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt
Hello Dusers, I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one have a nice way to do this? TIA -- Frisco Rose By any other name, I would smell the same E.O.U. Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] (541) 962-2987 Science Journal Ed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOU Hoke Center 307 (541) 962-3787 La Grande, OR. 97850
Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (esoR ocsirF) wrote: I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one have a nice way to do this? TIA I do this by gatewaying the messages to local newsgroups with an assemblage of fetchmail-exim-mail2news-inn. It's a bit complicated to set up, though, so you may want to consider a cron job instead! (Messages will be in arrival order in your mailbox, so you can probably exploit that ...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt
I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one have a nice way to do this? TIA make a cron-job, which checks your mailbox every day. i've attached a script, which removes all messages, which are older that 7 days. please test this thing thoroughly, as i programmed it now from scratch. possibly there is a simpler way to do this ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. #!/bin/bash # the following line would be MB=$1, if you wanted to pass the mailbox # to process as an argument to the script MB=~/debian.mbox formail -s bash -c IFS=''; b=\`cat\`; test \$(date -d \\$( echo \$b|formail -x Date )\ +%s ) -ge \$(date -d \7 days ago\ +%s ) echo -e \\$b\n\n\ $MB $MB.new mv $MB.new $MB
