[imp] several questions from a newbie

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>:

> Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>:
>>
>>> - Beside the "Sent" folder I could need some help with some sort of
>>> automatic deletion of mails in defined (Mailinglist) folders.
>>> In the past I just ran a find on my local system to find files
>>> older lets say 3 month and delete them from those directories. Now it
>>> would be cool if IMP could do this for me after magically setting this
>>> up somehow. Is it possible or does someone know how to achive this
>>> easily?
>>
>> Nothing automatic that I know of. I guess you could just do a  
>> search based on the date using IMP.
>
> I tried this, but I'm getting strange result. When I search for mails in a
> large folder older 1st of January 2011, I'm getting for example mails from
> June 2010. When I now search for mails older 1st December 2010, I'm getting
> no mails displayed at all. This looks like a bug to me?!

Sounds like you are searching by INTERNALDATE rather than the header  
Date value.

> Beside that - does someone know how to easily delete mails from specific IMAP
> folders older than XXX days? I know I could use find(1), but I would  
> prefer an
> IMAP solution. Beside that I don't like to take a look on the file  
> date (which
> I would when I use find(1)). I would prefer to respect the Date: header. Why?
> Many of my mails are "imported" by imap_append and have a file date  
> not matching
> the Date: header.

See above (and RFC 3501 [6.4.4]).  You want to do a SENTBEFORE search  
(IMAP 4).  However, c-client is limited to IMAP 2 searches, which does  
not contain this option.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]