Re: tlug: archiving mail

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

I don't use any automation tool for archiving old mail, but sometimes
find the following couple of lines in .procmailrc very useful:

:0 c
backup

:0 ic
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,100d`


This keeps 100 latest messages in the backup directory

Viktor


>>>>> "JS" == John Seebach <jseebach@example.com> writes:

    JS> Howdy, all.  Tonight, on "As The Home Directory Expands"...

    JS> I've been trying to come up with a good way of automating the
    JS> process of archiving my old mail (moving messages older than a
    JS> certain date into separate folders and compressing them).
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