On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:25:55PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > 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!
Well I set it up so long ago (we're talking years!) that I've forgotten the details... This is my crontab entry: (mind the linewrap) 50 3 * * * archivemail -o ~/Mail/Archive/ ~/Mail/* ~/Mail/Malware/* ~/Mail/MLists/* ~/Mail/Admin/* ~/Mail/Misc/* Now as it happens none of those top level directories go down beyond 1 level, but each of them does have several sub-directories, each of which gets archived as expected. I'll have to look at, or experiment with, deeper levels - sorry I don't know the answer of the top of my head... Regards Mark
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