* Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi! > > I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently > got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming > 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, > I've gone through and deleted the mbox files that I knew I wouldn't > want in the future. > > It seems like there must be a better way. I picture some sort > of script / program that parses each of your mbox files, looking > for messages that are older than a certain date, and moving these > message into a seperate mbox file that could be compressed, deleted, > or parsed seperately.
procmail / formail should be helpfull in such a script, maybe with a specialised procmailrc just for that purpose. I have thought of something like this myself, but I prefer instead to have procmail splitting my emails in folders that have names on the form ~/Mail/lists/debian-user-2001-September automagically. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343