Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-27 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Chris! On Fr, 25 Sep 2009, Chris G wrote: > 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

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-26 Thread James Michael Fultz
* James Michael Fultz [2009-09-25 18:55 -0400]: [...] > If all of your folders are mbox and therefore files, it wouldn't > be difficult to do with some scripting. Oops! Realized I'd missed some things. #! /bin/sh archivedir=~/Mail-archive date=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d') cd ~/Mail && find . -type f -

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread James Michael Fultz
* Chris G [2009-09-25 17:15 +0100]: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: [...] > > > > I use Archivemail (http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/) > > > > to do exactly what you describe. [...] > > Now as it happens none of those top level directories go down > > beyond 1 lev

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:12:53PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Chris G wrote on 25.09.09: > > 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? > > sinc

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > 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 mu

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello Chris, Chris G wrote on 25.09.09: > 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? since you are a regular poster this might be old news but are you aware of the thread

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Arthur Dent
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 archiv

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
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? >

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Arthur Dent
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 mayb

Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a hierarchy

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
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