On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:42:28PM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > > Back to mutt and friends: > > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it can move them > > over to another mbox hierarchy for archive... Any ideas? > > Add something like this to your .muttrc: > > folder-hook =debian-.*$ 'push T~r>1m!~F\n\;' # 1 month > > Whenever you enter a folder named =debian-* it tags messages older than > 1 month. You can then delete them at your leisure. I should mention that you can delete tagged messages by doing ";d". If you're serious about using mutt you should subscribe to the Mutt Users mailing list as tips like this get passed around all the time. Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs <peter@kovax.org> Software Developer Webmachines, Inc. http://webmachines.com
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