[imapfilter-devel] filters for archiving mail

[Philippe LeCavalier]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 20:39 +0100, Lefteris Chatzimparmpas wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 09:07 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> >  58 results = account1.INBOX:arrived_before('01-Jan-2009') -
> >  59         (account1['rec'] +
> >  60         account1['archives'])
> >  61     results:move_messages(account2['archives/pre_2009'])
> >  62 
> >  63 --2009
> >  64 results = account1.INBOX:arrived_since('01-Jan-2009') *
> >  65         account1.INBOX:arrived_before('01-Jan-2010') -
> >  66         (account1['rec'] +
> >  67         account1['archives'])
> >  68 results:move_messages(account2['archives/2009'])
> 
> You can't include folders in your results like this or combine them with
> search functions like arrived_before().  If you want to exclude all mail
> in those 2 mailboxes then use select_all().
> 
> You're supposed to call specific functions to do searching.  See the
> imapfilter_config(5) man page section SEARCHING.
> 
> > i) rather than specify each mailbox and subfolder thereof, how can I
> > have it look through all mailboxes under INBOX recursively. 'INBOX.*'
> > kind of thing?
> 
> Have a look at the LISTING section in the man page.
> 
> > ii) if i) then how can I exclude the 'rec' and 'archive' folders?
> 
> You have to use a some Lua and to string comparisons based on the output
> of the listing functions.

Thanks Lefteris.

hm. What you mention makes sense to me but I doubt I'll be able to 'take
it from here' :-)

I'll keep searching for a working example...Surely someone is using this
project for this.

Phil