Re: [Evolution] archiving old mail?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

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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