On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 06:16:07AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> % Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this but I'm sure I got
> % this little code snippet from a mutt-related website...
> %
> % I've got this in my .procmailrc file:
> %
> % ## Nuke duplicate messages
> ...
> % ## Create backup cache of 100 most recent messages
>
> First, you probably ought to back up your mail before discarding the
> duplicates, so reverse these two.
Yeah, that was pointed out so I've already done that. =)
> % 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?
>
> How very interesting.
>
> Here's how mine is set up:
>
> .procmailrc
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
> PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
> FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
> ...
> INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.backup
> ...
>
> rc.backup
> :0 c
> 00Backup/.
>
> :0 ic
> | cd 00Backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t | sed -e 1,500d`
>
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | $FORMAIL -D 8192 $HOME/.procmail/msgid.cache
>
> This drops a sequentially-numbered clone of the email in $MAILDIR/00Backup,
> uses the clone function to run the backup script (cd to 00Backup and then
> remove messages that are left after removing the 500 most recent), and
> *then* pumps it through formail against my Message-ID: cache file.
>
> Note the trailing /. on the first recipe, where the copy gets dropped
> off. That's why the messages are sequentially numbered.
Yeah, I changed it to backup/. instead of just backup... I guess the
first uses maildir and the second uses mh folders. I prefer maildir.
=)
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