On Thu, 29 May 1997 14:58:45 +0000 (GMT),
"Matthew G. Saroff" <msaroff(_at_)pca(_dot_)net> wrote:
The safe backup in the procmailex man page is:#this will put a
copy of all messages in a fallback folder. It is a safety
# feature for when I implement new recipes. This will save only the most
# recent 32 messages
:0 c
backup
:0 ic
|cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d`
Does anyone out there have a variant of this that might keep the
last N messages in a mail folder as opposed to separate files? It would
That is going to be fairly complicated. However, if your system is
good about quoting From_ lines, you could approximate it with a sed
script which will always pluck off the first message from the folder:
sed -e '1d' -e '2,/^From /{' -e '/^From /!d' -e '}'
Lars Kellogg-Stedman posted instructions for how to use MH folders
from within Pine some time ago (a week or two); that would allow you
to read a directory of files from Pine, I believe. (I understand MH
uses a one file per message format.)
[The script is only briefly tested and I'm no sed guru. YMMV.]
Hope this helps,
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