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

[Ken Irving <jkirving@mosquitonet.com>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:53:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 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'm not sure what it is that you want to do, but maybe formail 
could do it.  From formail(1):

       formail is a filter that can be used to  force  mail  into
       mailbox  format,  perform `From ' escaping, generate auto-
       replying headers, do simple header  munging/extracting  or
       split  up  a mailbox/digest/articles file.  The mail/mail­
       box/article contents will be expected on stdin.

-- 
Ken Irving <jkirving@mosquitonet.com>