On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:54:30PM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need a cron job to do this automatically, but every so often I > > want to move old messages out of my mailbox (it's a bit slow loading > > my IMAP folders when they go over 20K messages or so). So I'll do > > something like: > > I defined the following hook to move older than 20 days mails from my > INBOX to an "Archive" mailbox. > > # > # Personal messages > # archive old (see expiry_wait) messages to "Archive" mailbox > # > folder-hook =INBOX 'push > <tag-pattern>~R~r>20d\n<tag-prefix-cond><save-message>=Archive\n<end-cond>'
Thanks. I have a lot of mailboxes (my "inbox" is only where list traffic goes that I haven't setup with procmail yet). I think I'd prefer to use cron on the imap server to move old files but it's nice to know about the hook. Thanks. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
