On Friday, 25 July 2008, 10:25 (UTC+0200), Steve S wrote: > On Jul 24 14:16, Ravi Uday wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In mutt 1.5.17 is there a way we can setup a rule where if the number > > of emails touches 150 move the first 50 to a specified folder ? > > We can then map this rule witha key too ? > > > > If you are also satisfied with using the message age as criterion, you could > use something like archivemail and a cronjob to put old mail in a .gz file. To > re-read old mail, do `mutt -f <mailbox>_archive.gz`.
If date can be used as a key I'd do something with a folder-hook and "push" and match a "~d > X" pattern. Not sure if this is what the OP wants. Something like (not tested, and I'm sure others have better direct function names where I use keyboard presses) folder-hook . 'push "<tag-pattern>~d > 1m<enter>s\Ca\Ck=archive\n$"' Actually, trying the line above just now it doesn't work; it just tags but doesn't save the message to the archive mailbox, not sure why. m.
