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Subject:    Re: [Evolution] archiving old mail?
From:       Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj () ximian ! com>
Date:       2002-01-31 19:13:39
Message-ID: 1012504419.13578.2.camel () tazmanian-devil ! ximian ! com
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As long as you delete the mbox.ev-summary files that correspond to any
mbox files that you change, Evolution will be okay.

Jeff


On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 08:01, John Klassa wrote:
> 
> I'd like to archive old mail, automatically.  When I used MH, it was
> simple enough to write a script to use the relevant MH commands to find
> mail older than a month and move it into an "archive" subfolder.
> 
> With Evolution, it ought to be reasonably straightforward, given that
> the mail is stored in an mbox-style file.  My only fear is that if I
> move mail out of a file (while Evolution is shut down, of course :-)),
> I'll confuse its indexing mechanism.
> 
> So, my questions:
> 
> 1.  Anybody done this already and care to share?
> 
> 2.  Need I fear the indexing, or will Evolution notice the difference in
> the mtimes and reindex on its own?
> 
> 3.  Is there some nifty, hidden API that'll help me do this, so that I
> don't have to munge the files directly?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
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