[Alpine-info] Alpine - multiple accounts: Age Interval syntax, retaining flagged messages, sending with AOL?

[James Freer]

On 7 October 2011 23:15, Matt Ackeret <mattack at apple.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, James Freer wrote:

>>a] In Thunderbird and Seamonkey for 'lists' it is useful to be able to

>>set an auto delete i.e. delete messages after say 90 days. Reading on

>>the UW website the command for Alpine is Age Interval (min, max) - i'd

>>assume to enter in the .pinerc under patterns... about line 500

>>patterns-other ? i'm not sure on the syntax required. Together with

>>auto delete it is useful to be able to flag messages for retaining.

>>I'm sure both are possible but i'm not sure how.

>

> I'd guess that you'd set a filter to mark as deleted if older than 90 days..

> but do not do it if ther is ALSO a keyword.. and you'd add that keyword

> to the ones you wanted to save.


Thanks for the reply. I've done it but it was a little disappointing
on the speed side. I realised there would be a delay with sorting but
it is so slow it's barely worth trying. In the past i've flagged
[starred] important messages and then selected unflagged and deleted
manually - that seems the best way all things considered.

unless anyone has any bright ideas!

thanks
james