Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:3626 comp.unix.questions:23555 Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Path: utzoo!utgpu!trigraph!john From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) Subject: Re: Handling old mail Message-ID: <1990Jul5.203530.7464@trigraph.uucp> Sender: "John J. Chew" Reply-To: "John J. Chew" Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada References: <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 20:35:30 GMT In <1990Jul3.130104.18250@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes: >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. This by itself will not deter a reasonably intelligent disk hog. All I'd have to do is keep my multi-megabyte tar file in my mailbox and re-mail it to myself every few weeks. John -- john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329 trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}