Re: [SLUG] mail sorting

2003-01-11 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003, James Gregory wrote: > My current aim (which I don't think procmail can achieve) is to go > through all my messages once a night and move any messages that are > older than (say) a month into the same folders under my "Archives" > folder. > > Does anyone know how to do this o

Re: Mailbox formats (Re: [SLUG] mail sorting)

2003-01-07 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was going to mention the maildir format, but do cli utilities exist > for it like they do for MH? I know of an attempt to start on such a > thing (http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/mdmh.html) but it hasn't > seemed to have gotten very far. I've g

Re: Mailbox formats (Re: [SLUG] mail sorting)

2003-01-07 Thread mlh
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:55:08 +1100 Mary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It may be too big a change for you, but I like the MH way of storing > > mail -- one file for each message. Then doing things like archiving > > old mail or deleting all mail whi

Mailbox formats (Re: [SLUG] mail sorting)

2003-01-06 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It may be too big a change for you, but I like the MH way of storing > mail -- one file for each message. Then doing things like archiving > old mail or deleting all mail which contains some phrase or header or > whatever becomes very easy. I use M

Re: [SLUG] mail sorting

2003-01-06 Thread mlh
> > While this would be handy, you would need to at least run your mailboxes > through formail to split them up into messages and then pipe them to > procmail, all with a cronjob. > > I think scripting is probably a better idea. It may be too big a change for you, but I like the MH way of storin

Re: [SLUG] mail sorting

2003-01-06 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003, James Gregory wrote: > I have once again found myself fiddling with my procmail rules in the > hope that one day they will be smart enough to take over the world. My > current aim (which I don't think procmail can achieve) is to go > through all my messages once a night and mo

Re: [SLUG] mail sorting

2003-01-06 Thread Angus Lees
At 07 Jan 2003 10:36:32 -0500, James Gregory wrote: > I have once again found myself fiddling with my procmail rules in the > hope that one day they will be smart enough to take over the world. My > current aim (which I don't think procmail can achieve) is to go through > all my messages once a nig

[SLUG] mail sorting

2003-01-06 Thread James Gregory
Hi all, I have once again found myself fiddling with my procmail rules in the hope that one day they will be smart enough to take over the world. My current aim (which I don't think procmail can achieve) is to go through all my messages once a night and move any messages that are older than (say)