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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 ;)

kfir
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