Hello! I thought some of You can have a problem which is similar to mine. I am subscribed to many, many lists and I get more than 200 emails every day (maybe more, I didn't check exactly). I use procmail to automaticly sort this mail to different files. Then I use IMAP server and various clients (NN, Evolution, mutt) to acces my mail. The problem is that the mailboxes grow and grow steadily and it takes more time to check for new mail in every of them, more time to get message indexes etc. And - to be honest - I'd like to backup those 100MB+ files to some CD or at least compress them. But You need to cut out the "older" part from them first. The soulution which I imagine would be to run a sort/backup script once upon a time. This script should go thru all the messages and check if a single message is (for example) older than X days. If yes - it should move (copy) the message to "backup" file, if no - it should leave it (or copy to the new "main" file" which will replace source file when the sorting/backup process is done). I suspect some of You could have already solved this problem and maybe could present here their solution? Or - more probably - I'll have to write it from scratch. How would You do this "sorting" ? With what? perl? (I am not very goot at it) or maybe some shell programming? Can You draft tha main pieces of such script? Thanks in advance Grzegorz Prokopski
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