Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:55:05 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for Mr good mail archiver port...[OT ?] Message-ID: <15285.7145.953374.638924@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010929031840.A74527@hades.hell.gr> References: <108871926@toto.iv> <15284.49504.73445.529806@guru.mired.org> <20010929031840.A74527@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> types: > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > > Once WAIS started blowing on my personal folder, I found that standard > > Unix tools work fairly well. I sort the mail out into directories by > > month, one message per file. So doing things like "look for a message > > in june or july about SCSI disks" turns into: > > > > find 2001-0[67] -type f | xargs grep -i "^subject:.*scsi" > > > [snip] > > Which reminds me a lot of MH folders. My archive contains MH folders, folders from my home-grown Amiga UMA, and qmail Maildirs. > I think I'll try to have procmail split the mail automagically in MH > folders depending on the `year-month', as in: > > ~/Mail/freebsd-questions/2001/09/* > ~/Mail/freebsd-questions/2001/10/* > ... qmail makes doing this kind of thing easy. Just create freebsd-questions as a maildir, and have your .qmail deliver the -questions mail to that. The newest stuff will then be in freebsd-questions/new. You then use a periodic/monthly script that moves all the messages that arrived last month to the appropriate directory in freebsd-questions. I think my script would take three changes to make it do what you want: change the outdir from $year-$month to $year/$month, the cd to the archive directory, and adding a "-p" to the mkdir. > I really loved the ideas that started popping up with your message, Mike. > Thanks a lot :) You're welcome. -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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