Re: Move messages instead of Copy
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:54:30PM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I need a cron job to do this automatically, but every so often I
> > want to move old messages out of my mailbox (it's a bit slow loading
> > my IMAP folders when they go over 20K messages or so). So I'll do
> > something like:
>
> I defined the following hook to move older than 20 days mails from my
> INBOX to an "Archive" mailbox.
>
> #
> # Personal messages
> # archive old (see expiry_wait) messages to "Archive" mailbox
> #
> folder-hook =INBOX 'push
> <tag-pattern>~R~r>20d\n<tag-prefix-cond><save-message>=Archive\n<end-cond>'
Thanks. I have a lot of mailboxes (my "inbox" is only where list
traffic goes that I haven't setup with procmail yet). I think
I'd prefer to use cron on the imap server to move old files but it's
nice to know about the hook. Thanks.
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Bill Moseley
moseley@xxxxxxxx