O.k ... The messages older than 5 days gets tagged but not moved to the archived folder ...
The mails gets put into ~/mail/incoming/operating_systems/FreeBSD (by procmail) ... the folder I want it to go to is ~/mail/incoming/archived/freebsd/freeBSD-Archived ... I think I am getting the paths wrong ... Thank You Danny On Nov 27 15, Jon LaBadie : > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:41:16 -0500 > From: Jon LaBadie <mut...@jgcomp.com> > Subject: Re: Move old messages > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:49:17PM +0100, bastian-muttu...@t6l.de wrote: > > On 27Nov15 16:33 +0200, Danny wrote: > > > O.k ... I tried various combinations but it does not seem to work > > > > > > folder-hook .FreeBSD push > > > 'T~s>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter> is > > > what I tried last ... > > > > Right. Of course I inserted some typo. ~s is the metachar for the > > subject of the mail. Try it with a ~d which corresponds to the date > > received. > > > > folder-hook .FreeBSD push > > 'T~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter> > > > > Watch out: > > The first argument to folder-hook is a regexpr. So be careful with that. > > .FreeBSD will (most probably) match both of your mailboxes FreeBSD and > > FreeBSD-OLD. > > > > Better try first: > > > > folder-hook FreeBSD$ push > > 'T~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter> > > > > Here, the '$' marks the end of a line, thus the folder FreeBSD-OLD will > > not be matched. > > > Nice Bastian, I may also have a use for something like this. > > One thought, if I'm away for a week or more this would archive several > days of unread mail. Adding a simple ~R to the pattern seems to > eliminate this concern. Are there any side-effects I overlook? > > folder-hook FreeBSD$ push > 'T~R~d>5d<enter>;s/incoming/os/bsd/FreeBSD-OLD<enter> > > Jon > -- > Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com > 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) > Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
