Re: periodic archiving of groups?

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org> writes:

> Couldn't you use group names that end in something like -year-month,
> so that new groups are created every month?  A friend of mine uses a
> system like this and is very happy with it.

For me, this wouldn't be optimal.  I don't want a new group to get
created at the beginning of every month.  When that happens, all
of a sudden, I've got an empty group with no context for the current
incoming messages.

What I'd like to be able to say is "every month, archive the messages
from the month that's 6 months ago into a new group".

I wouldn't mind having to do this manually, though it'd be really nice
to have an automated way to handle it.

I might be interested in writing the elisp for this if someone could
get me pointed in the right direction (I'd want to base the splitting
on the actual message date, not the article numbers...)

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