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Re: [LUG] Thunderbird Feature hunt....

 

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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
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