On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:17:58PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > 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! > I looked at Archivemail but it only archives specified mailboxes doesn't it, it won't run down through a hierarchy of mailboxes. My hierarchy has 3293 mailboxes in it (even I didn't realise there are *that* many until I looked!), I'm not going to archive that lot by hand!
-- Chris Green
