[pmmail-list] Manual Filter to Delete old E-mail

[Kenn Yuill]

Hello Dave,
  In reply to your message, sent to
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com. I wrote:
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On 2003-11-20 at 18:13:10, Dave Saville stated:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:01:03 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:13:41 +0000 (GMT), Dave Saville wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:33:31 -0500 (EST), Kenn Yuill wrote:
> >>
> >>>Has anyone devised or discovered a method of deleting week-old or
> >>>month-old e-mail using a /maintenance-free/ manual filter?
> >>
> >>If you use an external script be sure and shut down PMM first!
> >
> >Not necessary.  You just have to do Tools->Reindex->Account afterward. 
> >That's how I do my archiving.
> 
> Depends on how the external delete works - if it updates the
> folder.xxx bits then PMM does need to be shut down to avoid a
> possible write clash between PMM and the script.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave Saville

Thanks again, I will play it safe and shut down PMMail.  It will take
me some time to work on Jim's script for my usage.  Now, I do a
reindex after running the manual filter on a folder to purge day-old
messages.

Ciao,
      Kenn
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