Subject: Harvesting emails by date

From: Carol Gyger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:05:48 -0700 (MST)

I would like to "harvest" all my messages from all my folders based on
date.  Ideally, they would all gather into one folder so I could examine
and ultimately delete.  For example, I would like to gather up all the
messages that are at least 90 days old.

Do you have any suggestions about an efficient way to accomplish this?  I
am using Pine 4.44.

Thank you,
cg

Carol Gyger
Systems Administrator
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson St.
Fort Collins CO  80524
(970)221-6716
[email-masked]

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From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:01:20 -0800 (PST)

>Do you have any suggestions about an efficient way to accomplish this?  I

Awesome.. your question made me learn a new feature of pine..

In the Index, you can ; (select) by Date..

At first I thought that it was only "sent since <date>".. but ^W
changes the criteria that the date is used for..

e.g.
SENT SINCE
SENT BEFORE
SENT ON
ARRIVED SINCE
ARRIVED BEFORE
ARRIVED ON

While there doesn't seem to be any easy way of selecting '90 days' (like you
can't type -90 or something), you could just manually go back a few months,
or masochistically type/paste 90 ^P chars.

Is this what you meant?

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From: Carol Gyger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:45:56 -0700 (MST)

Matt,

Thank you.  Yes, I find this feature quite useful.  I wondered if there
was a way to not have to go into each folder to find old emails.

Still searching for a way. :-)

cg

Carol Gyger
Systems Administrator

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:09:20 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Versions of pine >= 4.50 have a new feature in Rules/Filters that will
allow you to select messages based on their age. 4.44 does not have this.
This would allow you to create rules which move old mail from one folder
to another whenever you open the folder.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:04:43 +0000 (GMT)

> to another whenever you open the folder.

Hi Steve,

Can you explain what Age setting you use to do that? I have a lot
of filters set up to do that and currently I use this condition

 Message is Recent? =
            Set    Choose One
            ---  --------------------
            ( )  Don't care, always matches
            ( )  Yes
            (*)  No

But I'm curious to learn about alternate ways.

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:14:30 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Can you explain what Age setting you use to do that?

In the Filter Setup screen,

    Age interval = 90,INF

will match any message that is 90 days or older.

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