Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

rosef@eou.edu (esoR ocsirF) wrote:
>I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to
>read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own
>mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or
>some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one
>have a nice way to do this? TIA

I do this by gatewaying the messages to local newsgroups with an
assemblage of fetchmail->exim->mail2news->inn. It's a bit complicated to
set up, though, so you may want to consider a cron job instead!

(Messages will be in arrival order in your mailbox, so you can probably
exploit that ...)

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]