try grepmail : http://grepmail.sourceforge.net
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:58:03PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Chris Green proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> >Can anyone point me at any tools for extracting mail by date (e.g. all
> >mail for a given year) from a mailbox folder hierarchy and saving it
> >in a similar hierarchy under another directory ready for compression,
> >backup, whatever?
>
> cat, grep, sed and awk are your friends :)
>
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> Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
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