Mail archiving

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:38:12PM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:29:54PM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> > lockfile foo.mbox
> > grepmail -d "since 3 months ago" foo.mbox > foo-new.mbox
> > [ $? = 0 ] && mv foo-new.mbox foo.mbox
> > rm -f foo.mbox.lock
> 
> Hmm - OK this doesn't do exactly what you want.  It was copied from a
> script that I use to delete my old mail rather than archive it.  Who
> reads old mail anyway?  (-:

Oh, looks neat. I've never heard of grepmail before. I'll check it out,
thanks!
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.