something like
ORIG_DATE=`date -d "7 days ago" +%s`
for mail in `find /path/to/mail/dir -type f`
do
DATE_STRING=`grep -m1 ^Date $mail | cut -d: -f 2-`
MAIL_DATE=`date -d "$DATE_STRING" +%s`
if [ $MAIL_DATE -gt $ORIG_DATE ]
then
mv $mail /some/path
fi
done
no guarantees, particularly because I have not tested it, but the idea is to
get 2 unix time stamps, see if the one from each mail is bigger than your
cut off date, then move accordingly
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, October 16, 2008 1:39 pm, Jim Donovan wrote:
> > Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll
> > have to deal with an empty file before the first item.
> >
> > You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to
> > separate old ones. Note that many spams have crazy Date values.
>
> Jim, thanks
>
> no, I don't need to spilt a file, this is a Maildir, sorry, I might have
> said 'mailbox' meaning a Maildir mail box
>
> I have abt 50,000 files with date/time stamps sequential as '11:29',
> '11:30', '11:30' etc
>
> 1222219798.M92715P19307V000000000000FD00I0003537F_5855.sbt.net.au
> ,S=36316:2,S
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 34002 Sep 24 11:29
> 1222219799.M303140P19307V000000000000FD00I00035381_5857.sbt.net.au
> ,S=34002:2,S
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 517769 Sep 24 11:30
> 1222219800.M489462P19307V000000000000FD00I00035385_5858.sbt.net.au
> ,S=517769:2,S
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 46269 Sep 24 11:30
>
> each email's header appears to be correct;
>
> so, I'm trying to read each header, if date is within last 7 days, copy it
> eslewhere (back to Maildir)
>
> sorry for using wrong terminology
>
> >> I have a mailbox with approximately 50,000 emails;
> >>
> >>
> >> when I tried to age the emails with archivemail, archivemail or some
> >> part of it couldn't quite cope with size/volume/some unknown aspect,
> >> and, 'crashed' on this mailbox
> >>
> >>
> >> perhaps as a result of that, I now have some 50,000 email files
> >> sequentaily date/time stamped, some, there is no way of sorting on file
> >> date/time stamp (that I can see)
> >>
> >> I think... that failed procedure might have also duplicated?
> >> triplicated? quadrupled? mail volume...
> >>
> >> the mail headers do have correct date/time
> >>
> >> how can I copy say the last 7 days worth of emails from the files?
> >>
> >> like, "if date in the header=last 7 days, copy this file from here to
> >> there"
> >>
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