Hi, I hope this is not too offtopic here. I have now successfully set up a cyrus imap/exim based mail server using debian testing for my personal use. The goal is to use this server as my main mail archive. And there are lot's of mails in there, most come from mailing lists.
Now, I have done some work to create a filter system for incomming mails that will dispatch the mails automatically into defined folders (for mailing list mails). That was a little harder that expected, because cyrus_deliver needs to be run as cyrus, whereas the .forward is examined as the regular user. But in the end sudo was my friend. Now, I have done away with a ultra huge inbox, because all list mail get's dispatched, but still some list archives (like this one) get huge over time. A cool addition to my system would be to have some kind of cron job that searches for mails that are older than a certain timespan and move them to a different folder. Given that my current folder layout looks like this (it is bigger in reallity, but the below suffices for the demonstration purpose): INBOX lists lists.debian lists.debian.user lists.debian.news It would check each folder and if mail was found that was of a certain age, it would put it in a sub-folder. The result could look like this: INBOX INBOX.jan-jul-2001 INBOX.jul-dez-2000 INBOX.jan-jul-2000 lists lists.debian lists.debian.user lists.debian.user.jan-jul-2001 lists.debian.user.jul-dez-2001 lists.debian.user.jan-jul-2000 lists.debian.news lists.debian.user.jan-jul-2001 lists.debian.user.jul-dez-2001 lists.debian.user.jan-jul-2000 The script should automatically create folders if they are not there yet. Now what is the best/simplest way to do it. I was thinking about using some imap binding for python (i think there is one) and doing such a script myself. but hey, maybe s.th. similar is already out there. Any ideas? tia, Andreas
