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Re: mail
From:
Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Date:
March 2, 2002 03:28
Subject:
Re: mail
Message ID:
20020112094957.GA1973@marvin.clone
Hi,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 Pieter Blaauw spewed into the ether:
> Hi guys
>
> How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with
> Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual
> /var/spool/mail/<username>
>
> Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 into another big file
> that I could use as a backup of last years mail. I have over a thousand
> messages in it so doing it manually is pretty impossible. I'd like to keep
> the messages for this month so far in the maildir otherwise I could have
> easily just moved the /var/spool/mail/<username> somewhere as a backup and
> problem solved.
Not a perl solution, but I'm sure Pine has some way of tagging/moving
messages according to a specific pattern. Under Mutt, it's quite easy,
and IMHO, you'll be better served by your MUA rather than perl.
pv.
ps. Another thing, it may not be such a good idea to leave your mail in
the spool directory. It makes more sense to save it in your home
directory ( ~/Email, say). Simply because you always have control over
your own home directory.
--
Prahlad Vaidyanathan <slime@vsnl.net>
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