* Salvatore Iovene <salvatore(_at_)iovene(_dot_)com> [11-19-09 13:31]:
Thanks, yes, I want copies for archival.
then you might be more interested in:
# -------------------------------------------------------
:0 c
$MAILDIR/backup
:0 ic
| `find ~/mail/backup -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'msg.*' -mtime +91 -delete`
### original recipe with # msgs adj
### | cd ~/mail/backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,7999d`
#
### alternate method from Dallman Ross <dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com>
# when "Argument list too long" occurred
#
# | cd ~/mail/backup && |\
# rm -f dummy `find ~/mail/backup -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'msg.*' |\
# xargs -0 ls -t | tail +6001`
#
### and another
# `find ~/mail/backup -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'msg.*' -mtime +31 -delete`
# -------------------------------------------------------
I keep three months of mail in a cache. Note that this could be adjusted
to provide differing lengths of time for particular lists using multiple
caches.
I use mbox and search with mairix, fast and very handy once the syntax
becomes comfortable.
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