Re: archiving mailboxes each month

1999-08-22 Thread Gerald Oskoboiny
. Try > > mailboxes `find $HOME/mail -type f -print | tr '\n' ' ';echo` > > instead. Beware also that the tilde ~ doesn't get expanded - you > have to use $HOME instead. I guess this depends on your shell -- ~ works for me (using bash.) -- Gerald Oskoboiny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Re: archiving mailboxes each month

1999-08-22 Thread Gerald Oskoboiny
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:27:27PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > On Aug/19/1999, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote: > > You can get around this by using: > > mailboxes `find ~/mail -type f -print` > > Doesn't work here :-) Mutt only treats as mailbox the first

Re: archiving mailboxes each month

1999-08-18 Thread Gerald Oskoboiny
ing: mailboxes `find ~/mail -type f -print` (untested, but I use something similar.) Note that most other mailers I've used can't even think about doing stuff like this. :) > Thanks again to everyone that helped. No problem! -- Gerald Oskoboiny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Re: archiving mailboxes each month

1999-08-18 Thread Gerald Oskoboiny
along to the rest of the procmailrc for further processing. The archive stuff needs to appear near the top of your procmailrc to catch all messages before they get filtered. I recommend using filenames like -mm instead of 1999-aug because they appear in date-order when sorted alphabetically. (li