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* OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
@ 2012-12-10 11:30 Rainer M Krug
  2012-12-10 11:39 ` Andrei POPESCU
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rainer M Krug @ 2012-12-10 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch

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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?

Rainer
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* Re: OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
  2012-12-10 11:30 OT: Sorting emails in maildir? Rainer M Krug
@ 2012-12-10 11:39 ` Andrei POPESCU
  2012-12-10 11:57   ` Rainer M Krug
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrei POPESCU @ 2012-12-10 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch

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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?

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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* Re: OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
  2012-12-10 11:39 ` Andrei POPESCU
@ 2012-12-10 11:57   ` Rainer M Krug
  2012-12-10 13:40     ` Andrei POPESCU
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rainer M Krug @ 2012-12-10 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch; +Cc: public-notmuch-gxuj+Tv9EO5zyzON3hdc1g

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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?

Thanks

Rainer

> 
> Kind regards, Andrei
> 
> 
> 

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* Re: OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
  2012-12-10 11:57   ` Rainer M Krug
@ 2012-12-10 13:40     ` Andrei POPESCU
  2012-12-10 14:27       ` Rainer M Krug
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrei POPESCU @ 2012-12-10 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch

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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).

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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* Re: OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
  2012-12-10 13:40     ` Andrei POPESCU
@ 2012-12-10 14:27       ` Rainer M Krug
  2012-12-10 22:15         ` Maxim Vuets
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rainer M Krug @ 2012-12-10 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch; +Cc: public-notmuch-gxuj+Tv9EO5zyzON3hdc1g

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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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* Re: OT: Sorting emails in maildir?
  2012-12-10 14:27       ` Rainer M Krug
@ 2012-12-10 22:15         ` Maxim Vuets
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Vuets @ 2012-12-10 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rainer M Krug; +Cc: notmuch

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:27:04PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>notmuch search [...] | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/rkrug/Maildir/Archive/2009/cur
...
>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.

You may also try archivemail[1]. Unfortunately its the only output
format is mbox, so you cannot keep your archive indexed.

However I like your approach better. Thanks for the hint.

[1] http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/

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2012-12-10 11:39 ` Andrei POPESCU
2012-12-10 11:57   ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-10 13:40     ` Andrei POPESCU
2012-12-10 14:27       ` Rainer M Krug
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