Re: 'all' folder msgs from last 3 weeks; of symlinks?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Tom,

> I have many nmh folders, that get filled by procmail. I'd like to have, an 
> 'all'
> folder that is built by a shell script that could be called by cron daily. 
> I'd be happy, with all msgs, say from the last 21 days. Perhaps this script
> would remove bad symlinks in 'all' each time it runs.

You're implying you want the ‘files’ in +all to be symlinks rather than
hard links?  refile(1) can make hard links with -link.

I'd have thought useful parts would be:

    rmf +all
    folder -create +all

    folder +foo && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all
    folder +bar && pick -list -after -21 | xargs -rd\\n refile -link +all

    sortm +all

If you want symlinks and you want to preserve +all from one run to the
next but remove the symlinks to files which are now too old whilst
adding those which are new then comm(1) would be handy.

> **In this way I could use sort and 'scan' to list the nmh 'all' folder
> msgs sorted by time.**

One has wondered about the separation of email files into folders and
sequences, the overlap between the two, and most commands only working
within a single folder.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.