*- Jay Barbee wrote about "Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders"
| Does anyone have a script that will automatically archive or remove mail
| messages out of a folder so that a list such as this one could be more
| managable?
|
| I invision a cron job simply coping ~/Mail/debian-user to debian-user-<date>
| and then gzipping it. That way it would not take so long to open a mail
folder
| that has hundreds of messages.
|
| Any advice?
Look at the savelog command it is used in the /etc/cron.* scripts to
rotate the system log files. It could probably be used by a regular
user to rotate their own files. I have not done it myself but it
sounds intriguing, I am in the same situation you are.
--
Brian
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