Well I did it this way. Made a bash script, and ran it past cron
#!/bin/bash
mv /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-inbox /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-`date +%Y-%m`
mv /home/deklown/Msgs/sent /home/deklown/Msgs/sent-`date +%Y-%m`
gzip -9 /home/deklown/Msgs/sent-`date +%Y-%m`
gzip -9 /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-`date +%Y-%m`
exit 0
Then the cron entry:
1 0 1 1-12 * $HOME/mailbackup
do i need to put in /home/user/mailbackup or does $HOME fulfill bash
within cron recipe?
I would like to filter out, however, the new mail in June. They are
standard mbox files... How would I go about this?
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