Why don't you simply create a new mail box and drag/drop it into the new mailbox from within your imap client?
By the way your original post does not tell us which imap server you are using, so no one can know how to transfer stuff out of the mailbox. UW imap stores by default in mbox files (one file per folder) Courier stores on maildir format Cyrus is one message per file, but indexed in a proprietary format. Simply deleting mail out of a Cyrus directory will stuff the system up because Cyrus's index will think they aree still there. Once stuff is in an imap mail system the best way to shift it is using imap, either by dragging and dropping within an imap server, or using some sort of scripting language with hooks into imap. most popular scripting languages (perl python etc) can do that. On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:42 +0000, Joel Merrick wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:19 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > I don't think so but you can something more tricky, move them to a > > compressed file system and then setup a secondary imap server that > > look > > read only to that system. > > > > mail messages normally have a good compression ratio. > > t.b.h. I don't need the compression as I have plenty of space on my mail > server :) > > Just more interested with trimming down the size of my mailbox, whilst > still making my mail available (over https) > > I think I'll extend your one-liner to be able to do this.. I'm sure a > little PHP or Perl should be able to thread this and present it in such > a fashion :) > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
