From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T05:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: E-mail library for Ruby?

On 3/21/07, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
<i_hate_spam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>     Okay, I'll detail my problem and, hopefully, people can suggest a
> solution to me.
>     I have an account on a Linux machine that I use as my e-mail address.  I
> use Pine as my mail client.  I have let my inbox accumulate e-mail for years
> and there is now too much e-mail queued up for my tastes.  Now, I don't want
> to delete my e-mail.  Instead, I want archive it to various e-mail folders
> like how I would have if I used Pine.  I could do this by hand, using Pine,
> except that there is simply too much e-mail for me to do this in any
> reasonable time.

For the record: In Pine, you can enable aggregate commands, select
messages by criteria, then move them in bulk.

For step-by-step instructions to get started:
http://kb.iu.edu/data/aixg.html (In Pine, how do I enable aggregate commands?)
http://kb.iu.edu/data/afsx.html (In Pine, how do I perform an action
(like saving or printing) on a large number of messages at once?)

For further adventures:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=pine+enable+aggregate+command+set

You can then do things like select all the messages with "ruby-talk"
in the to field, and apply the save command to save them all to a
folder.

Since you're already familiar with Pine, then using the aggregate
command set, I think you could, in fact, do this in a reasonable
amount of time by hand. :)

-Alex