Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > how do i filter an mbox file to delete all messeges that are older then a > month ?
Google: http://www.argon.org/~roderick/mbox-purge I have never used it, so I cannot recommend it. A couple of other ideas to consider: Write a script (e.g. in awk or perl - check if mbox-purge or http://zwitterion.org/software/mbox-filter/mbox-filter is of any help, I never looked at it) that will do it. IIRC the individual messages in mbox are delimited with "^From " (with a space after "From") regular expression. Use that as record separator, match each record on the date, do whatever is necessary. Alternatively, use a mailreader that can grok the format and delete old messages. Gnus should be able to do it, others will probably work, too. All sane MUAs will read mbox format, which is used in the normal mail spools. E.g. as far as I understand KMail can move its default maildir to mbox, and then you can set expiration as you wish and the old messages will be deleted when you exit KMail. Check the documentation of your favourite MUA. Pipe the file to "formail -s" and then to some other program (such as procmail) that will filter as appropriate. You'll have to write the rules. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
