On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little > smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old > threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file? > This way I could have an archive of everything but my debian-user file > will remain up to date. > > Maybe it would be easier to write a script to do this? I am sure most > of you on this list have the same problem with information overload > especially on active lists. How do you guys handle this?
I've halfway figured this out, but not automated it yet. I have the following lines in a file: 22:08 $ cat ~/muttcommands :push "D~r>2w\nU~f debian-user-request\n*" :set wrap_search=no :push <Esc>/~D\n<up>^U :set wrap_search=yes 22:11 $ To mark old messages for deletion, I highlight the first two in one xterm, and paste into mutt. To undelete the recent threads, I highlight the third line and middle-click until I'm back at my subscription message from way far back ago. I haven't figured out how to automate this because I don't know if it's possible to get mutt to conditionally undelete a thread. Hope that helps. Rob -- Shit Happens.
