On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:37:40PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > freeman <free...@worldwidehtml.com>: > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > > > freeman <free...@worldwidehtml.com> writes: > > > > I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n weeks. Here is the l-debusr > > > > hook: > > > > > > > > folder-hook l-debusr 'push > > > > <tag-pattern>~r>12w!~F<enter><tag-prefix><save-message>+archive/l-debusr<enter>' > > > > > > I have the following for archiving old mail (>90d) in my INBOX. > > > > > > folder-hook =INBOX 'push > > > <tag-pattern>~R~r>90d<enter><tag-prefix-cond><save-message>=Archive<enter><end-cond><untag-pattern>~A<enter>' > > I'm glad you got your solution. > > Not criticism, honest, I'm curious why you wanted it. If something's > still in your inbox after 90 days, it's because you've not yet deleted > it. Why would you leave that work to an "age-ist" 'bot? My inbox has > about 10 mails I've yet to get to. They've all been read. Everything > else has been filed away or deleted. > > Perhaps we just have very different ways of dealing with it all. > I do that for listmail and business emails. Guess I don't like to stop and think about when to delete, when to archive, etc..
My procmail sorts to about 10 respective listmail boxes and 5 business mailboxes. After n weeks they save to archive; eventually they delete from there. That gives me a current and aging pool of information that I can read and re-reference as I leave and return to projects. It also gives me archives of business email that comply with standardized length of archive practices. How-to's all to often equate to Don't-do's; forums tend to have high signal to noise ratios; this scheme gives me a current pool of listmail that doesn't backup and is there as I need it, faster than the speed of a connection. I only wish I did CS for a living. I need to leave and return to projects, of which there are always 20 or 30 between 3 dual booting computers :0, as my schedule untangles itself like a sloth negotiating an obstacle course in a swamp, with alligators. -- Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
