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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > Neil Stone wrote: >> i'm just wondering if anyone is aware of either a plugin or excisting >> feature in Thunderbird that allows MS Outlook style archiving. > > Why a plugin? Sounds like a feature for Perl and a cron job to me. > >> I use IMAPS, I currently have about 100Mb of mail.. I want to download >> and remove anything over 2 months old and put in local folders with the >> same folder name as the 'live' mailbox >> >> Ideas on postcards to usual place... > > Someone already wrote spme Perl (imapsync), the man page even has a list > of similar tools, but I think imapsync will be sufficient. Do back > everything up before you try and work out the right options (probably > something like minage/delete and some a regexp of "*"). > > Although it assumes you want to run a local IMAP server, which to be > sure to avoid data loss (i.e. preserve all flags etc) you probably do. > Server is in telehouse... I really need a user friendly tool for this... so that i can use it for others. Neil Stone -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFExxEHz3Av8JKgzxQRAjS/AKCvJPigeNGh0t4GwpZmn3a/aqcf6wCgnV0Q ZLI0Z7H1LLHWg8nDPhg11N0= =E8u+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html