On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:00:05AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to > > delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files. > > > > Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a > > "delivered" date older than N days? Is procmail even the right tool, I'm > > not so sure... > > You can run procmail on existing mailbox if you use formail to split > the box into messages, for example, > > mv mbox mbox.safe && cat mbox.safe | formail -ds procmail > > You probably don't want to filter into and out of the same mailbox, > though; might produce an infinite loop or erase all your mails. I'm > not sure how you do 'older than' in procmail. > > You can also use mutt's folder hooks. For example, I have
I've looked into this, and neither procmail nor formail have any facilities to process mail based on date, unless it's the current date. You could have mail put in a folder 04-2001 for instance, but that is based on the current date and not the date in the message. You could probably do some matching on the "date:" header but I don't want to do that. > > # > # Tag "old" messages in mailinglists for "expiring" them. > # Simply press "d", after entering one of the folders, iff mutt asks > # "tag-" > # > folder-hook =debian-user$ 'push T~r>2w\n\;' # 2 weeks > > in my .muttrc, so when I switch to =debian-user and there are old > messages I see 'tag-' at the bottom of the screen and hit 'd' to > delete everything that's old. Note that with 'push' mutt can do just > about whatever you want. > Perfect!!! I'll do that on my folders and make a cron script to fix up my mail folders on my mail server. I have a bunch of users that keep messages on the server, but the client won't delete the messages automatically. Cucipop will delete the message if it's older than a certain date, but only if the client tries to _retr_ it when it's old enough. Since it does a uidl and knows it doesn't need to get that message again it won't and I get mail that is several months old on my server. I can have cucipop change the uidl once the message gets old enough, but then the client receives old mail, and people getting 200+ messages that they've already read doesn't go over very will with them... mutt -e "push..." will be a lifesaver. :) Does anyone see anything I haven't thought of already? Oh, yes I know outlook will delete messages on the server "older than..." but I don't want to have to depend on the client being configured correctly, and most don't use outlook thankfully. Mike
