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From: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael Stipicevic <stipredirect@gmail.com>
Cc: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] archive all messages before a certain date?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:35:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285180485-sup-7603@ezyang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8H1hWi6pmpGErBwey+kHefnUa2ZtS9+gbgyYz@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Michael Stipicevic's message of Wed Sep 22 14:18:30 -0400 2010:
> I'm not sure if this is on the web anywhere (I've tried a few searches and
> not much came up): what is the most straightforward way to archive all
> messages before a certain date? I just loaded up a huge mail store and want
> to archive everything before, say, March this year. I've tried various
> combinations of chronic commands and the 'g' to tag threads but I'm not
> getting anywhere. Also, sup seems built to *toggle* threads rather than
> force them to a certain state (+inbox or -inbox). Any ideas?

The best strategy I've found is to dump the inbox, do a manual search replace
on the appropriate range of the inbox tag, and then load it back up again.

Edward
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 18:18 Michael Stipicevic
2010-09-22 18:35 ` Edward Z. Yang [this message]
2010-09-22 18:50 ` Mark Alexander
2010-09-22 18:53   ` Michael Stipicevic

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