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Re: [PLUG] mutt close-hook advice
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am in the position (as I'm sure many of you are) of having some
> mailboxes that grow rapidly out of control. What I'd like to start
> doing is archiving them in some sane way, e.g. monthly rotations or
> something. I could just write a logrotate script for them, but that
> seems like not the best way - I have no idea what would happen if a
> delivery was under way when a logrotate run came along. I was thinking
> of maybe using a mutt close-hook to rotate all the messages received in
> December into a 2004-12 mailbox, and similar handling for others. I am
> not sure this is any saner, however (or even really possible), so I am
> asking what others do to manage their mail volumes.
>
> Thanks,
> --
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> | Stephen Gran | Why do they call a fast a fast, when it |
> | steve@lobefin.net | goes so slow? |
> | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | |
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Stephen:
I have several mailboxes that grow as you describe. Every so often
I tag the first thousand (or two) using "T ~m 1-1000" and save them to
a similarly named folder in my "old" directory. Just takes a few
minutes a month since they don't grow _that_ fast.
HTH
Eric
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# Eric Lucas
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