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Article #1377Re: Handling old mail
From: John Chew
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 20:35
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 20:35
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In <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes:
>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.
This by itself will not deter a reasonably intelligent disk hog. All I'd
have to do is keep my multi-megabyte tar file in my mailbox and re-mail it
to myself every few weeks.
John
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!trigraph!john From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) Subject: Re: Handling old mail Message-ID: <1990Jul5.203530.7464@trigraph.uucp> Sender: "John J. Chew" <john@trigraph.UUCP> Reply-To: "John J. Chew" <poslfit@gpu.UTCS.UToronto.CA> Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada References: <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 20:35:30 GMT