Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck
Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>> > 6. It must have a decent expiry system.
>>
>> You don't need a mailclient to have a decent expiry system if you are
>> using Maildir. Since all new mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/new and all
>> read mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/cur, you can use this script to delete
>> all read mail over a certain date:
>
> That's not necessarily true. OfflineIMAP puts all mail in cur.
Well, if you were using offlineimap, I would think you would do the
script on the imap server rather than the client.
> Generally, I think you may find "unseen" mail in new, but the MUA will
> move it to cur as soon as it finds it. It may very well not be read by
> you yet.
Didn't realize that. The one MUA I'm using, which shall go unmentioned
in case you decide to kick me in the nuts, don't. Probably shouldn't
have been so sure about it.
Isn't there a way to check whether a file has been looked at? Like the
difference between creation time and access time. Although I'm not sure
the creation time gets changed if a file gets moved from new to cur...
>> find ~/Mail/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0r rm
>
> I think the following blob be much more reliable:
>
> find ~/Mail/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -regex ".*:2,.*S" -print0 | xargs -0r rm
Hey, cool.. Thanks for the update...
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