Re: mutt deletes 1st unread
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:37:40PM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> freeman <freeman@worldwidehtml.com>:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> > > freeman <freeman@worldwidehtml.com> writes:
> > > > I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n weeks. Here is the l-debusr
> > > > hook:
> > > >
> > > > folder-hook l-debusr 'push
> > > > <tag-pattern>~r>12w!~F<enter><tag-prefix><save-message>+archive/l-debusr<enter>'
> > >
> > > I have the following for archiving old mail (>90d) in my INBOX.
> > >
> > > folder-hook =INBOX 'push <tag-pattern>~R~r>90d<enter><tag-prefix-cond><save-message>=Archive<enter><end-cond><untag-pattern>~A<enter>'
>
> I'm glad you got your solution.
>
> Not criticism, honest, I'm curious why you wanted it. If something's
> still in your inbox after 90 days, it's because you've not yet deleted
> it. Why would you leave that work to an "age-ist" 'bot? My inbox has
> about 10 mails I've yet to get to. They've all been read. Everything
> else has been filed away or deleted.
>
> Perhaps we just have very different ways of dealing with it all.
>
I do that for listmail and business emails. Guess I don't like to stop and
think about when to delete, when to archive, etc..
My procmail sorts to about 10 respective listmail boxes and 5 business
mailboxes. After n weeks they save to archive; eventually they delete from
there.
That gives me a current and aging pool of information that I can read and
re-reference as I leave and return to projects. It also gives me archives of
business email that comply with standardized length of archive practices.
How-to's all to often equate to Don't-do's; forums tend to have high signal
to noise ratios; this scheme gives me a current pool of listmail that
doesn't backup and is there as I need it, faster than the speed of a
connection.
I only wish I did CS for a living. I need to leave and return to projects,
of which there are always 20 or 30 between 3 dual booting computers :0, as
my schedule untangles itself like a sloth negotiating an obstacle course in
a swamp, with alligators.
--
Freeman
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