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arnaudmorin / archive-mails
Created August 30, 2017 09:28 — forked from pkern/archive-mails
A script for cleaning up mails in Maildir folders, with proper threading support
#!/bin/sh
BASE=$HOME/Maildir
ARCHIVEBASE=$HOME/Maildir/archive.
for folder in `find $BASE -maxdepth 1 -type d \! -regex '.*/archive\..*' \! -name cur \! -name tmp \! -name new`
do
folder=$(basename $folder)
if [ "${folder}" = "Maildir" ]; then folder=INBOX; fi
./cleanup-maildir.py --archive-folder=${ARCHIVEBASE}${folder} --maildir-root=$BASE --folder-prefix= --age=365 -d 1 -k -u -v archive ${folder}