On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, LuKreme wrote:
L> I would like to use procmail (manually) to scan my exisiting mailboxes
L> and archive old posts to a backup location outside of my mail folders.
L>
L> Rather than starting from scratch, I figured this is something that
L> other people have covered already.
L>
I more or less do this every night with crontab, a shell script and a
procmailrc. I deliver the old mail to /dev/null but, looking at it, you
would just have to change the last line from /dev/null to something like
${DEFAULT}/oldstuff
This is a generic solution in that the mailbox is specified on the command
line together with the number of days:
# run at 04:15 each day
15 4 * * * $HOME/.procmail/admin.anybox IN.zzzz.spam 7
# run at 04:17 each day
17 4 * * * $HOME/.procmail/admin.anybox IN.zzzz.viruses 7
Should I post it all here? Or email me at:
tuna @ purse-seine . net
which will bypass the password autoresponder (unless you are reading an
archive and it is no longer 2002).
Alan
( Please do not email me AS WELL as replying to the list. Personal
email is welcome but may invoke a password autoresponder. )
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