Re: [SLUG] copying files by email header date, file date stamp same

[Ken Wilson <kenwilso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had thunderbird fail as too many emails in inbox in a user that 
did not expunge, and then multiple copies were saved, and this cycle 
repeated itself to varyinging levels of success several times.

claws was able to handle the 50,000 + emails, and remove duplicates.
cheers
Ken

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I have a mailbox with approximately 50,000 emails;
>
> when I tried to age the emails with archivemail, archivemail or some part
> of it couldn't quite cope with size/volume/some unknown aspect, and,
> 'crashed' on this mailbox
>
> perhaps as a result of that, I now have some 50,000 email files
> sequentaily date/time stamped, some, there is no way of sorting on file
> date/time stamp (that I can see)
>
> I think... that failed procedure might have also duplicated? triplicated?
> quadrupled? mail volume...
>
> the mail headers do have correct date/time
>
> how can I copy say the last 7 days worth of emails from the files?
>
> like, "if date in the header=last 7 days, copy this file from here to there"