Re: Only download emails older than x days
Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:53 AM Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a ton of emails in my gmail account and would like to only > > download (and delete from gmail after that) only those emails that are > > older than X days. > > getmail does not have a feature to avoid downloading new mail. No one's ever > asked for such, and it doesn't strike me as terribly useful. > My use case is to keep only somewhat recent emails (say within the last year) in gmail and archive the rest. This way I do not keep a ton of emails there. > However, it does have a feature to download mail immediately but only delete > it from the server after a period of time -- see the delete_after option. > That's probably what you actually want. > If I was starting afresh it would make sense. Right now I have years of emails I would rather pull down and later on go through them and delete the ones I do not want (as if that is going to happen ;) ). > Charles > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles Cazabon > GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >