Subject: mail housecleaning - help!

From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:12:52 -0500 (CDT)

Dear Pine-Central,

  This is not really a pine question as such, but comes about because of
Pine's marvelous ability to neatly organize one's incoming mail.  I save 
incoming mail as "from.name", where "name" is the person or organization
sending me mail.  I now have 3 Meg of old mail in 100+ files.

   --> I need to clean out old mail.  How best to do it? <---

I would like to go thru every mail file and delete all messages older than
say 6 months.  Is there some way to do this from within pine?  Some other
program out there that does this?  A Unix utility that I don't know about?
Help!

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 09:01:47 -0700 (PDT)

Jeff,
In a recent pine-info discussion Mike Kuniavsky had the following 
suggestion:

"There's a piece of software called mailclean (in comp.sources.misc volume
22, available at all of the usual places or check archie) which removes
"old" (definable) mail after a set period of time from mailboxes, leaving
all of the other mail."

Hope this helps.

-teg

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From: "Kelly Cunningham (Random Deviate)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 11:35:32 -0600 (GMT-0600)

> sending me mail.  I now have 3 Meg of old mail in 100+ files.

A related suggestion: How about a menu item to compress (.Z) the selected mail
folder?
 
Another related suggestion: How about a .pinerc option to keep each mail
folder compressed when not in use?
 
-- kc