Hi! I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, I've gone through and deleted the mbox files that I knew I wouldn't want in the future. It seems like there must be a better way. I picture some sort of script / program that parses each of your mbox files, looking for messages that are older than a certain date, and moving these message into a seperate mbox file that could be compressed, deleted, or parsed seperately. 'apt-cache search mail' gave me a lot of responses, but the only tool that seemed close was something called 'barrendero', but it sounds more like a tool to *delete* mail from a single mbox file in /var/spool/mail to keep the mail server from getting full. Is there such a beast? If not, how do you folks manage the great crush of old, accumulated email messages on your systems? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu IARC -- Frontier Program GPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
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