Re: managing folders

[Roy-Magne Mo]

On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
> Bah, you are correct David (see enclosed). My dreams of a self
> maintaining mail folder temporarilly shattered. :(

using maildrop you could achieve this:

       Keep  copies  of the last 50 messages that you received in
       the maildir directory 'backup'. NOTE: 'backup' must  be  a
       maildir directory, not a mailbox. You can create a maildir
       using the  maildirmake  command.  maildirmake  comes  with
       qmail. If Qmail is not installed, a substitute maildirmake
       is provided as part of the maildrop package.

            cc backup
            `cd backup/new && rm -f dummy \`ls -t | sed -e 1,50\``


You can find maildrop at http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ 

-- 
Roy