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Article #1373Re: Handling old mail
From: Barton E. Schaefer
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 01:57
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 01:57
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In article <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes:
} Can anyone suggest a program which will handle the ageing of mail?
}
} What I'm looking for is a program which looks at a user's mailbox file
} (in /usr/spool/mail) and transfers all messages older than, say, a month
} to a specified file in the user's own home directory.
If you have Mush, you write a script:
# Change home directory to match spool file
set home = "~$thisfolder:t"
# Collect the mail and save it to AGEDMAIL file
pick -ago -1 month | save $home/AGEDMAIL
# Update the folder and exit
quit
And then you invoke it thus:
mush -n! -u username -F agedmail-script
(or verbosely:
mush -noinit! -user username -source agedmail-script
for you Sun folks). This must be run by root to work successfully.
--
Bart Schaefer schaefer@cse.ogi.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!schaefer From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Handling old mail Message-ID: <10338@ogicse.ogc.edu> Date: 5 Jul 90 01:57:12 GMT References: <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 27