Re: downloading by date range

OK, part way there....

On 22/01/2024 12:41, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
> On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:54:07 +0000, graeme vetterlein:
>
>> I'd like to setup something for the whole household (Family) as I 
>> know for a
>> fact they never organise their historic email :-) and I don't want 
>> their junk
>> using my whole allocation
>
> I'm a mutt user :-) and I'm pretty sure that it allows creating a 
> script that automatically selects, deletes and purges messages older 
> than 1 year (~d >1y) for each account in sequence, which you can then 
> run periodically (interactively or cron).
>
So I think I plan to knock up a small python script that runs monthly 
and just deletes any mail older than 12 months.

Working it though it however leaves another little "kink" ...


1: I download inbox say once a day (with --keep)

2: I run the delete python script once a month (leaves a year online)


So now I have 12 months online and everything up to today on "local" 
(e.g. /var/mail/myuser)


If I want to send *while I'm at home*, I use a *local SMTP* server and a 
copy of the outgoing mail gets saved in local-IMAPed-directory/Sent


While I'm "on the road" I can view recent (year) mails via imap to 
"online provider". However if I send an email, while I'm out I'll need 
to use

online_provider.SMTP a copy will need to be saved in 
online_provider-IMAPed-directory/Sent


So my *outgoing mail is saved in 2 different places* depending on where 
I was when I sent it.


The obvious solution would be to run fetchmail+imap on 
online_provider-IMAPed-directory/Sent ... However, this seems odd, for 
example, what would I do with it?

If I pass it to local sendmail its going to send it to the original 
"TO:" header again ... when really it just needs to go into ~/mail/Sent 
(or similar) .

If it's not going though sendmail, then I really should be doing some 
locking?


(now I know "Sent" is a function of the MUA (Thunderbird) not the MTA  
..but while I'm out of the house ~/mail/Sent is inaccessible . (while 
online_provider-IMAPed-directory/Sent is available)


--


Graeme



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