On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:45:48PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 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! :-)
>
OK, a little think and look at the mutt manual has come up with
reasonable ways of doing this. The initial 'design' (hack would be
more like it!) would be as follows:-
Use find to run down through the folder hierarchy
Execute mutt for each mailbox/maildir found
tag messages for a date range with T~r dd/mm/yy-dd/mm/yy
save the tagged messages somewhere
delete the tagged messages (optional)
Now the only way I can see to execute the "T~r dd/mm/yy-dd/mm/yy", the
save command and the delete command is by using mutt's -e command line
paramter and a 'push' command. Does this seem a possible approach,
and are there any significant limitations on the command line and
'push'?
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