Re: archive alias mail?

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 18:09 2000-03-01 +1100, David Taylor wrote:
>I have 3 aliases, each of which I'd like to archive.  The aliases are
>specified in /etc/aliases, of course.  I'd like to be able to maintain
>an archive for each of these that I can compress and store on a weekly
>basis.

Create aliases like this:

redhat-list:  redhat-list,/home/username/redhat-list.txt
gnome-list:   gnome-list,/home/username/gnome-list.txt
balsa-list:   balsa-list,/home/username/balsa-list.txt

Each destination file needs to be writable by the 'mail' user. Just make it
660 with group 'mail'. Then have cron run a script like this:

cd $HOME
for mailfile in redhat-list.txt gnome-list.txt balsa-list.txt
do 
  currdate=`date -d today +%Y-%m-%d`
  newname=`echo -n $mailfile.$currdate`
  cp $mailfile $newname
  cat /dev/null > $mailfile
  ls -l mailfile*
done


 Tony
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