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From: scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: .mushrc && folders (was Help with auto-processing of messages?)
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Date: 13 Sep 89 14:21:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: gts@dasys1.UUCP's message of 28 Aug 89 20:57:41 GMT

>In article <10569@dasys1.UUCP> gts@dasys1.UUCP (G. T. Samson) writes:
>
>   Hi there.  I've finally figured out a proper way to use the
>   "pick" command (from inside a script file), but for the life
>   of me, I can't figure out how to get this script file to
>   execute automatically!
>
>   What I'm trying to do is to toss out certain mail, move other
>   mail to separate mailboxes for later perusal, etc. - all the
>   things that the "pick" command does best.  Now, how do I get
>   this to happen every time that mush starts up?  I know that I
>   shouldn't put it in the .mushrc file, as no messages have yet
>   been read in when that's executed... but I even tried to bind
>   the command that I want to run to a key, and it wouldn't let
>   me pass an argument.
I've done the same sort of thing, but I don't have it run when I read
my mail. I run it as a "batch job" out of crontab. I setup a script
that cleans out my mail folder directory (archive old messages into an
"old/" directory and compress them; delete old messages out of
folders). The script looks like this (I imagine there are better ways
to do this, but this one has worked for a while, so I don't muck with
it):
---------------------
#! /bin/sh
#
# Usage: clean_mboxes [<folder_directory>]
#
cd ${1:-$HOME/mboxes}
if [ ! -d old ]
then mkdir old 2>/dev/null
fi
{
   ls -F |              # Generate mbox filenames
   grep -v / |          # Filter out directories (e.g. the old/ dir)

   # Now, this generates the MUSH commands to delete messages from 
   # +backup that are > 3 months old and archive messages older than
   # 4 months from other folders.
   awk '
   {
      if ($1 == "backup") {
         print "folder " $1 " | pick -ago -3m | delete";
      }
      else {
         print "uncompress old/" $1;
         print "folder " $1 " | pick -ago -4m | save old/" $1 " | delete";
         print "compress -v old/" $1;
      }
   }
   END {
      print "quit";
   }'
} >/tmp/cmb.$$ 2>&1

# Give all those commands to MUSH and filter out some of the messages.
/usr/local/bin/mush -i < /tmp/cmb.$$ 2>&1 |
   sed -n '
      /^Saved/p
      /^Appended/p
      /^Updating/p
      /^"/p
      /^old\//p
   '
rm -f /tmp/cmb.$$
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