I use a procmail rule for that:
:0 c :
$MAILDIR/Archive/`date +%Y-%m`
Which copies all incoming mail into a YYYY-DD mbox format mailbox, and
then lets the message continue through any other rules that I have.
Works For Me (tm).
M
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:34:26AM -0600, dan radom wrote:
> 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
