At 04:12 PM 11/12/97 +0100, Andreas Sikkema wrote:
Is there a way to get procmail save mail to a folder with a date in
the name? I want procmail to save some mail to a folder that changes
it's name every month. Or do I need another app to do this?
In your .procmailrc before you start recipes:
# Check man date for formatting info. This is YYYYMM format. To add DD (day)
# to the end, append %d to the format string
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/`date +"%Y%m"`
# this makes the directory if it doesn't already exist
DUMMY=`test -d $MAILDIR || mkdir $MAILDIR`
(MAILDIR defines the "current directory" while procmail is executing, so
where you specify a file without giving a path, this is where it expects to
find or put it. However, I'm fond of explicity declaring directory
variables everywhere I use a path to make things really clear in the script).
Now, when mail comes in, and you output it to a file, it'll be in a YYYYMM
(say $HOME/Mail/199711/) path. You still can have separate mailboxes
there. If you instead want a date-named mailbox, then you can omit the
DUMMY (mkdir) line, define MAILDIR normally, and then define something like:
DATEBOX=`date +"%Y%m"`
Then explicitly use the $DATEBOX variable on the delivery line, like so:
:0:
* some rule
|$DATEBOX
Since I filter into multiple folders, if I used something like this, I'd be
prone to use the directory method myself.
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