I've got several mbox format mailboxes I want to archive monthly. I've come up with
the following shell script to run from cron, but I'm not sure there isn't a better way
to go about this. Here's the script..
#!/bin/sh
maildir=/home/graffix/mail
for x in $maildir/lug $maildir/support $maildir/mutt-users $maildir/procmail
do tar czfp $x-`date '+%m-%Y'`.tar.gz $x ; cp /dev/null $x
done
My main concern is that mutt might be in the process of writing to a mbox when cron
fires off the script. I'm guessing that could create some problems and possibly even
lost email. Anyone have a better suggestion?
Dan
