On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:32:36PM +0300, Mikko H?nninen wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
and Suresh said:
> cat, grep, sed and awk are your friends :)
I get the message - it's a "do it myself" job then! :-)
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