Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:34:13AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Andy Saxena wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to
> >Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are
> >applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able
> >to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup
> >folder.
> >
> >Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too
> >much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if
> >somebody could point me the right direction.
> >
> One way to do it would be to use the libmail-imapclient-perl package to
> write a program that does it.
>
> The documentation may be a little sparse. You could end up learning
> Perl *and* reading an RFC! :-)
There's always the hard way to solving any problem :-}. Anyway, I know
that it's common for people to run cron jobs on their mbox files to
archive email. I am just surprised that no such tool seems to exist for
IMAP.
-Andy
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