[Gllug] Maildir Archiving

countd countd42 at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 12 10:26:01 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:15 AM, countd <countd42 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Ben Whyte <ben at whyte-systems.co.uk> wrote:
>  >  I am am trying to archive up some mailboxes that are in mail dir format.
>  >
>  >  They all live under a specific directory.
>  >
>  >  I am  looking to archive all the mail older than 90 days, preferably
>  >  taring the files up before moving them off.
>
>  What about using find? eg:
>  find ~/Maildir/cur -type f -mtime +90 -print0|xargs -0 -i mv {}
>  ~/Maildir/.archive/cur

Sorry didn't read the preferably tar part - had a late night. :)  The
principal is the same though.
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