Hi,
As my mail folders are currently just over half a GIG I have an urgent need
to do something to compact them. This is the idea I have at present but have
no idea if I am even vaguely on the right track here.
I am looking for a script that will automatically once a month scan through
my mail folders and remove all messages older than 3 months and then make a
backup of everything that is left which can be burnt to CD.
I can't see any way of doing this directly in Kmail. I have looked in the
mail folders with vi and have been able to delete messages with that and have
had no problems especially if I delete the indexes and allow Kmail to rebuild
them when it restarts. This leads me to believe that what I need is a script
file that
1) Checks that Kmail is not open and if it is closes it.
2) Deletes the index files from /home/user/Mail
3) Grep looking for something like Date: Month 2001
4) Delete mail by clever method not yet devised.
5) Start Kmail to automatically rebuild the indexes
6) Tar -cvf monthly.backup.tar /home/user/Mail
Will it work and is there an easier way?
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Regards
Richard
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