Mark,
That sounds like exactly what i'm looking for. If I understand you correctly this
will copy all messages into $MAILDIR/Archives/`date whatever`, and also allows it to
pass through the remainder of my procmail rules for a match? I could also modify the
rule to copy messages to $MAILDIR/Archives/mutt-users--MM, which would be exactly
what I'm looking for. Thanks.
Dan
* Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I use a procmail rule for that:
:0 c :
$MAILDIR/Archive/`date +%Y-%m`
Which copies all incoming mail into a -DD mbox format mailbox, and
then lets the message continue through any other rules that I have.
Works For Me (tm).
M
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:34:26AM -0600, dan radom wrote:
I've got several mbox format mailboxes I want to archive monthly. I've come up
with the following shell script to run from cron, but I'm not sure there isn't a
better way to go about this. Here's the script..
#!/bin/sh
maildir=/home/graffix/mail
for x in $maildir/lug $maildir/support $maildir/mutt-users $maildir/procmail
do tar czfp $x-`date '+%m-%Y'`.tar.gz $x ; cp /dev/null $x
done
My main concern is that mutt might be in the process of writing to a mbox when
cron fires off the script. I'm guessing that could create some problems and possibly
even lost email. Anyone have a better suggestion?
Dan
