Any suggestions for a command line program to select emails for deletion based on command line options? I specifically want one that can remove emails that were received more than X days ago, but can also express "but don't delete if they're flagged".
I had been using archivemail (https://manpages.debian.org/buster/archivemail/archivemail.1.en.html) from cron to delete emails in certain folders. It saves me from having to manually go in and purge folders for lists that I want to have available, but don't ever read old messages. It allows commands like: archivemail --quiet --delete --days=30 ~/mail/folder1/ archivemail --quiet --delete --days=30 --include-flagged ~/mail/folder2/ It supports reading Maildir, IMAP, mbox, MH, but the mailboxes I need to purge are all maildir. When I recently upgraded to Debian 12, I found that archivemail has been removed from Debian because it's an unmaintained Python 2 program. I could probably port archivemail to Python3 with enough time. I could compile Python2 from source, but don't want to. I could call mutt (see, kinda OT!) with "-e" to tag, delete, sync, and quit, but that seems fiddly and heavyweight. I could extract the interesting parts of archivemail into my own script (most of the script is about *archiving* email, which I'm not interested in). I could give up on using the message headers to determine the message date, learn how filenames are constructed in Maildir (to read the flags) and use a shell script built around "find". None of those options are great, so I thought I'd see if there's something that I could just install. -- Ed Blackman
