Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 17 May 2000:
> Can anyone point me at any tools for extracting mail by date (e.g. all
> mail for a given year) from a mailbox folder hierarchy and saving it
> in a similar hierarchy under another directory ready for compression,
> backup, whatever?
Shell scripts + Mutt? Should be doable, even easily, just might take
a little work to get perfected. The only catch is the situation in
which a folder doesn't contain any emails matching the given
tag-pattern, but if you know you don't have to worry about that, then
you should be all set. :-)
Mikko
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