On 16:42 17 Jan 2002, Prahlad Vaidyanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Something I haven't yet done is to setup macros to look for threads
| older than, say, one week, and remove them automatically when I exit a
| folder. This will keep the folder size down. Currently I do this
| manually when I'm feeling bored.

I keep my mail in MH folders, so I can find old messages by

        find folder-dir -mtime +7 -print

I roll a couple of folders nightly into folder-old with cron.

Obviously this doesn't work so well for the other folder types.
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