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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Handling old mail
Message-ID: <10338@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 01:57:12 GMT
References: <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes:
} Can anyone suggest a program which will handle the ageing of mail?
} 
} 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. 

If you have Mush, you write a script:

    # Change home directory to match spool file
    set home = "~$thisfolder:t"
    # Collect the mail and save it to AGEDMAIL file
    pick -ago -1 month | save $home/AGEDMAIL
    # Update the folder and exit
    quit

And then you invoke it thus:

    mush -n! -u username -F agedmail-script

(or verbosely:

    mush -noinit! -user username -source agedmail-script

for you Sun folks).  This must be run by root to work successfully.
-- 
Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu