Doug Hellmann: MailArchiveByDate - Sort Mail.app Messages into Archive Folders
karl
· 10 months ago
In .procmailrc
MONTH=`date +%Y/%m` YEAR=`date +%Y` umask 022
:0 ic * ? test ! -d $MAILDIR/$YEAR | mkdir -p $MAILDIR/$YEAR
:0: * $MAILDIR/$MONTH
Doug Hellmann
· 10 months ago
That would sort the incoming mail into year/month folders instead of your inbox, right? It would be useful if you had access to the server and could install a .procmailrc. I don't on at least one of my mail servers.
rachel
· 3 months ago
this is wonderful. One of my favorite scripts of all time! Thank you very much
I had a huge backlog of emails to archive, and it felt too overwhelming to create the folders, etc. This script filed over 1,000 emails in under 5 minutes. OK, maybe 7 minutes when I take into account that I customized the name of the Archive folder (zArchive so it's not at the top of the email folders)
Doug Hellmann
· 3 months ago
Hi, Rachel, I'm glad you found it useful. Thanks for posting the performance information, too. I don't think I've ever used it on that many emails at one time.
All Comments
MONTH=`date +%Y/%m`
YEAR=`date +%Y`
umask 022
:0 ic
* ? test ! -d $MAILDIR/$YEAR
| mkdir -p $MAILDIR/$YEAR
:0:
*
$MAILDIR/$MONTH
I had a huge backlog of emails to archive, and it felt too overwhelming to create the folders, etc. This script filed over 1,000 emails in under 5 minutes. OK, maybe 7 minutes when I take into account that I customized the name of the Archive folder (zArchive so it's not at the top of the email folders)