Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-10-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:53:57AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Lifted that from aptitude show archivemail. This is perfect, exactly > what I was after! Thanks Brian! Another vote for archivemail from me. I have a local patch to mine to add a feature to delete a mailbox if, after archiving, it

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-10-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Fletcher: > > So I was thinking of implementing a policy of deleting messages from > this mail folder on my PC (the one Mutt is looking at) on a say monthly > basis. If you prefer a mutt-only solution (without archivemail) you could also use a hook to mark all mails older than 30 days for

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:36:54 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Any advice on the smoothest way to get background archiving (which in > > this case means deletion) of old messages in this scenario? I'm not > > married to a Mutt solution,

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:36:54 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Any advice on the smoothest way to get background archiving (which in > this case means deletion) of old messages in this scenario? I'm not > married to a Mutt solution, any solution that will automatically delete > the right mails at

Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I'm aware there are large number of proponents of Mutt on this list, and so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I've got fetchmail downloading from my gmail account only the folder that I have Google Inbox putting all the list messages for this list in, and forwarding them to my local user on my