On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, mess-mate wrote:
> Hi,
> i backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde
> backup utility)
> I've to delete manually older backups of these.
> The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz
if your saving every 3 days.. why are you using time in the filename
save it as
/backup/mon
/backup/tue
/backup/wed
and you'd have 7 day rotations of old emails that will be overwritten
or use /backup/1 /backup/2 /backup/3 /backup/4 ... /backup/30
and you'd ahve 30 day rotations of old emails that will be overwritten
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the emails you want to save is already saved in your mail folders
and you can delete the spool .. unless you're using imap
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if you are saving your emails and keeping only for 3 days or saving every
3 days .. one day you will need to recover prevous emails from last week
or last month, and you won't have it if you delete important emails
- important emails goes into "important folder"
- mailing list emails gets deleted upon reading and is
already archived all over the world
c ya
alvin
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