Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2629 mails)

[talacko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Talacko)]

Hi,

I'm not sure that this is completely on topic, but as people here are so
knowledgable, there is probably someone who knows.

First thing, I want a script that I can put in my .profile file or be
invoked by cron.  I want it to take any mail that is older than say, a
month, delete it from the mail box and put it into an archive store.  
Some mail, after I've read it, I'd like to be put straight into a mail box
related to that correspondent, so clearing out my inbox.

The other thing I'd like to do is batch process my email.  I use pine at
the moment and this can't be done, but I'd like some script where I can
flag all emails which relate to some search criteria and carry out one
operation on them, say, save to a folder or delete.

My mail forwarder is procmail, but I can't see anything in the man pages
that would allow these sort of scripts to be run.  Am I missing something?

I also thought about doing something in perl.  There is a mailbox module,
but the README carries warnings about how unstable it is and that it
shouldn't be used.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

Paul

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Paul Talacko
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