Stephen Isard wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, hbezemer-at-kliksafe.nl |s-nail| wrote: |> I want to delete all mail which is older then one year. This can be |> done with the '(before date)' search expression as described in the |> manpage. To automate this process, I would like to use the shell |> date(1) command to get the date one year ago. How can I import the |> outcome of command into mailx? I get the right string with: date |> --date='last year' +%d-%b-%Y So I'm looking for something like: ?move |> '(before <outputfromdatecommand>)' +Trash | |If you call s-nail with | |s-nail -S yearold=`date --date='last year' +%d-%b-%Y` | |the variable yearold within s-nail will contain the date string.
It should be possible to script this in the MUA alone, even if the syntax is crude (and letting error handling etc. aside): $ mailx -#:/ ? vexpr date-utc dutc_year=2022 dutc_month=7 dutc_day=22 dutc_hour=22 dutc_min=38 dutc_sec=50 ? vput vexpr x date-utc ? echo $x dutc_year=2022 dutc_month=7 dutc_day=22 dutc_hour=22 dutc_min=39 dutc_sec=12 ? eval set $x ? echo $dutc_year 2022 ? vput vexpr dutc_year - $dutc_year 1 ? var dutc_year version v15-compat set dutc_year=2021 #set version=v14.9.24 #variable not set: v15-compat --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
