On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of > external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages > older than a certain date? > > My ideal would be a tool that I could run either manually (or maybe > from cron, but that might be a bit daring) which would select all > messages in my ~/Mail hierarchy older than a specified date and move > them to an archive area with the same hierarchy. > > Second best would be a tool which would simply delete such messages as > one could copy the whole hierarchy first. > > It's fairly easy (?) to do such a thing for one mailbox/folder but I > really need to do it for a fairly deep hierachy of messages. Doing it > folder by folder would be painful.
I use Archivemail (http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/) to do exactly what you describe. It runs from a nightly cronjob and archives mail older than (in my case) 180 days (roughly 6 months). I use mbox format - I'm not sure about maildir but it works just fine for me! Best regards Mark
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