OT: Sorting emails in maildir?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 10/12/12 14:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 10 dec 12, 12:57:57, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> On 10/12/12 12:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Lu, 10 dec 12, 12:30:32, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> This is slightly offtopic, but I would like to move all emails in a Maildir folder into
>>>> an Archive folder. What is the easiest way of doing this? I assume I ave to do this
>>>> outside notmuch, but is there an easy way? I have 250 000 emails on my gmail account, and
>>>> this is slowing many things down.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>> 
>>> mv?
>> 
>> I found
>> 
>> notmuch search --output=files $(date +%s -d 2010-01-01)..$(date +%s -d 2010-12-31)
>> 
>> and how I can create a maildir (http://plasmasturm.org/log/81/)
>> 
>> So now I have to pipe the result from the notmuch command above to mv and move it to 
>> $MAILDIR/ARCHIVE.2010/cur
>> 
>> Is this correct? How can I do this?
> 
> Above you wrote "all emails in a Maildir", which is why I suggested 'mv'. For a more complex
> operation I would use my usual mail client (mutt in my case).

Sorry - I have forgotten the part "from one year". But I found a solution:


notmuch search [...] | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/rkrug/Maildir/Archive/2009/cur

$ notmuch search --output=files $(date +%s -d 2009-01-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-31-12) | xargs -0 -I
{} mv {} ~/rkrug/Maildir/Archive/2009/cur

to move all emails from 2009 into the maildir Maildir/Archive/2009

I though about using mutt or , but I am using usually thunderbird and notmuch for searching and
occasionally answering emails and archiving. So mutt is not that straight forward to me.


Thanks,

Rainer



> 
> Kind regards, Andrei
> 
> 
> 

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