On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:00:28PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >## Create backup cache of 100 most recent messages
> >:0 c
> >backup
> > :0 ic
> > | cd $PMDIR && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,100d`
> >
> >But it doesn't seem to be working properly (the backup part). I've
> >got something like over 1000 messages in there now but I only want to
> >save the last 100. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I have a feeling you are not using a "one file per mail" format like
> maildir or mh.
No, I'm using the mbox format. Does this mean I can't do this then?
Is there something similar to this for the mbox format?
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