[imapfilter-devel]archiving with imapfilter

[rnyman_imapfilter at afterburner.net]

Forgot to mention - I use IMAPfilter to populate the "storagefolder" 
that is referenced in .fetchmailrc.  IMAPfilter runs every hour - 
fetchmail runs every morning.

-R...

Here's a workaround for you:

I have a script file that determines where to put the files:
#!/bin/bash
rm /home/user/storage/current
touch /home/user/storage/`date +%Y%B`
ln -s /home/user/storage/`date +%Y%B` /home/rick/storage/current

And here's my .fetchmailrc:
poll imap.whatever.com
    proto imap
    user username
    pass password
    folder storagefolder
    mda "cat >> /home/user/storage/current"
    fetchall

Now I just run the script, followed by fetchmail, every morning.  The
only downfall is that it doesn't put the from header between messages so
I can't read them with a regular mail program.  I normally use tools
like grep, sed, and less to search these archives though.

Hope this helps,
-R...


Martin Kaehmer wrote:

>Hi Lefteris, 
>
>I'm using imapfilter for some time now and I'm quite happy with it. But I
>still miss some functionality. Have you ever thought about a real archiving
>function? I'd like to have a move action for something like "for all mail
>older then N days move to folder 'folder.archive.%y.%m'", where %y(ear),
>%m(onth), %w(eek) and %d(ay) are macros for the date of the current mail.
>Likewise the capital macros (%Y,%M..)for the date of today? 
>
>What do you think?
>
>
>cheers,
>Martin
>
>
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