[imapfilter-devel]Macro facility needed?

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:37:01PM +0100, Per Westerlund wrote:
> Problem:
> 
> 	We sort incoming messages in a common mailbox to a set of folders:
> 
> 		Day/backup
> 		Day/spam
> 		Day/mail errors
> 		.
> 		.
> 
> 	We want to move old messages to an archive a while before we delete them:
> 
> 		Day/backup		->	Old/backup
> 		Day/spam		->	Old/spam
> 		Day/mail errors	->	Old/mail errors
> 		.
> 		.
> 
> We can group mailboxes to an alias using the 'folder' command. We can use a
> common filter to select messages older than a certain number of days. Using
> 'job' we can associate the filter with the alias. There is unfortunately
> only possible to have an explicit recipient mailbox with the 'action move'
> command. This forces us to use one alias for every mailbox, one
> filter/action for every mailbox, and one job statement for every mailbox.
> 
> Is it possible to get the result I want with some minor modification of the
> language?
>
> [...]

Do you have any suggestions on how this could be accomplished conveniently,
by modifying or adding to the language?