Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:33:30PM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to
> > delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files.
> > 
> > Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a
> > "delivered" date older than N days?  Is procmail even the right tool, I'm
> > not so sure...
> 
> I don't know of an appropriate program for that, but I don't
> think that procmail is it. Procmail is really only used to
> filter incoming mail.
> 
Hmm, looking at mutt, it will do date ranges, but how to invoke from a
script?  Will the -e option work?

Mike