-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 07 October 2004 14:42, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:58, Vasiliev Michael wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:14, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > KL> Hi, > > > KL> how do i filter an mbox file to delete all messeges that are older > > > then a KL> month ? > > > > > > Why not use the old message expiry feature in your kmail? > > > > I'm using IMAP, and the there is no such option for IMAP folder to > > delete old mail. It do have this option for other folders that are not > > IMAP folders. > > Oh, so all the suggestions based on scriptology were useless because > you don't have normal file-level access to your mbox?... > > Then I suspect that either you will find a mailreader that will do > what you want or you will have to display some ingenuity. > > Try using fetchmail(1) with --all and --nokeep in conjunction with > some MDA that will return success only on old messages while forward > them to /dev/null. Check the RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES section of man > fetchmail. tnx, but my mbox files are at localhost ;) My laptop running postfix, dovecot, procmail and fetchmail. Kmail is using local IMAP daemon - dovecot. So, i can script ;)
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