On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, benjamin grosser wrote:
Is there a method built-in to mhonarc to automatically take older
mail (say from last month or whatever) out of the current index
and thread list, and move it to another directory, file or whatever?
No.
I could do this manually once a month, or write a script (would
rather not if I don't have to), so I thought I'd check and see if its
built-in first. DIdn't find anything in the documentation about it.
I wrote something that does this. It works for my setup, I don't
know whether it will really work for anybody else's. Here's the usage of
the script:
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Usage: archive.pl <update | create | rebuild | reindex>
[-a <archive1> [<archive2> [...]]]
[-m <month1> [<month2> [...]]]
[-y <year1> [<year2> [...]]]
update - Use this hourly (or whatever) to update the archives for any new
messages that may have come in.
create - Use this on the first of the month to create new monthly
archives. Also use it after adding entries to archive.conf.
rebuild - Use this to rebuild every archive from scratch. (avoid using
if possible).
reindex - Use this to rebuild the monthly index (if you change the header
or footer for example).
-a - specify archive(s) to process. If left out, all archives assumed
-m - specify month(s) to process. If left out, current month assumed
-y - specify year(s) to process. If left out, current year assumed
When there are multiple -y and -m options, every possible combination is
used. So, if -y = (1996, 1997) and -m = (1, 2), then you get the
following months processed (if they exist) for every archive specified:
1996-01, 1996-02, 1997-01, 1997-02.
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On my system, all mail is put into mailboxes, then every 10 minutes, I
call mhonarc with the -add paramter using the script's -update option.
Once a month I call the script with -create which creates new directories
and re-directs the mail into this new directory.
It's nowhere near perfect, but it has been working for me for the last
couple of months.
I can make it available if people think it could be of general use.
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