Vincent --
...and then Vincent Danen said...
% Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this but I'm sure I got
% this little code snippet from a mutt-related website...
%
% I've got this in my .procmailrc file:
%
% ## Nuke duplicate messages
...
% ## Create backup cache of 100 most recent messages
First, you probably ought to back up your mail before discarding the
duplicates, so reverse these two.
%
% But it doesn't seem to be working properly (the backup part). I've
% got something like over 1000 messages in there now but I only want to
% save the last 100. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
How very interesting.
Here's how mine is set up:
.procmailrc
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
...
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.backup
...
rc.backup
:0 c
00Backup/.
:0 ic
| cd 00Backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t | sed -e 1,500d`
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 8192 $HOME/.procmail/msgid.cache
This drops a sequentially-numbered clone of the email in $MAILDIR/00Backup,
uses the clone function to run the backup script (cd to 00Backup and then
remove messages that are left after removing the 500 most recent), and
*then* pumps it through formail against my Message-ID: cache file.
Note the trailing /. on the first recipe, where the copy gets dropped
off. That's why the messages are sequentially numbered.
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