On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:30:15AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:34:13AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Andy Saxena wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to > > >Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are > > >applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able > > >to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup > > >folder. > > > > > >Any pointers on how I could do this? Google did not reveal too > > >much information of interest. I'd be happy to read the documention if > > >somebody could point me the right direction. > > > > > One way to do it would be to use the libmail-imapclient-perl package to > > write a program that does it. > > > > The documentation may be a little sparse. You could end up learning > > Perl *and* reading an RFC! :-) > > There's always the hard way to solving any problem :-}. Anyway, I know > that it's common for people to run cron jobs on their mbox files to > archive email. I am just surprised that no such tool seems to exist for > IMAP.
The package description doesn't mention it, but the version of archivemail in SID has IMAP support. -Mark
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