On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:37:29PM +0000, seanh wrote: > Also, I realised that if the year is 2010 when you archive a mail then it will > go into Archives/2010, even though (if the mail has been hanging around in > your > inbox) you might have actually received the mail in 2009. A better macro might > move each mail into a different archive folder depending on the date of the > mail. Although in that case I worry about the possibility of receiving an > email > in 2010 with an incorrect date header, stating 1977 to 2017 or something, > maybe > I'm just paranoid.
I think save-hook is pretty close to what you would need here. Unfortunately you need to filter messages according to their year, and their doesn't seem to be a save-hook expando for that (there is one for the date, but only for the full date as displayed in the index).