Expire messages?

[Peter Terpstra]

Dear readers,
Is there way to have messages expired and deleted, after 30 days, 60 or a year?

My mutt version is 1.5.21.

Thanks in advantage,

Peter

[Peter Terpstra]

Peter Terpstra wrote:

> Is there way to have messages expired and deleted, after 30 days, 60 or a
> year?

It would be nice if this could be set by mailfolder/dir.

Like this:
~/Mail/facebook messages expires with 30 days
~/Mail/system-mail messages expires with 90 days.
~/Mail/inbox messages expires with one year.

[Frank Ursel]

create a folder-hook like:

folder-hook =system-mail 'push <delete-pattern>~d>90d<enter>'

This would mark every mail with a send date > 90 days for deletion, if
you enter the system-mail folder. For more information, have a look in
the manual. You can do almost everything you can do by hand, with some
hooks and patterns. :)

Frank

[Peter Terpstra]

Frank Ursel wrote:

> create a folder-hook like:
>
> folder-hook =system-mail 'push <delete-pattern>~d>90d<enter>'

Ah, this is a nice one, thank you!

> This would mark every mail with a send date > 90 days for deletion, if
> you enter the system-mail folder.

> For more information, have a look in
> the manual. You can do almost everything you can do by hand, with some
> hooks and patterns. :)

Yes, have read in the doc but missed something about the "expire" i was looking for.

Thank you!

Peter

[Peter Terpstra]

Frank Ursel wrote:

> folder-hook =system-mail 'push <delete-pattern>~d>90d<enter>'

This one works fine!

Now puzzled about how to move a expired message, tried this line:

folder-hook =inbox 'push ~d>7<save-message>=read-mail<enter>'

Does not work and find the documentation very hard to understand on this.

[Frank Ursel]

Peter Terpstra schrieb:

> Frank Ursel wrote:
>> folder-hook =system-mail 'push <delete-pattern>~d>90d<enter>'
> This one works fine!
>
> Now puzzled about how to move a expired message, tried this line:
> folder-hook =inbox 'push ~d>7<save-message>=read-mail<enter>'

Yes, because ~d isn't a key code, mutt can recognize. It's a regular
expression which can only be used together with some command like <delete-
pattern>

Try this one:
folder-hook =inbox 'push <tag-pattern>~d>7d<enter><tag-prefix><save-message>=read-mail<enter>'

First you tag all relevant messages with <tag-pattern>, then for
all tagged massages thats, <tag-prefix>, you save them away with <save-message>.

Frank

[Peter Terpstra]

Frank Ursel wrote:

> Try this one:
> folder-hook =inbox 'push
> <tag-pattern>~d>7d<enter><tag-prefix><save-message>=read-mail<enter>'

Thank you very much, this is great!
Cannot make this up from documentation and have been trough dozens of
examples on the internet but no such an answer like this.

Kind Regards,

Peter