From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <i_hate_spam@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T07:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: E-mail library for Ruby?


"Alex LeDonne" <aledonne.listmail@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1d065ed40703211330q1346880et2aee38acb5d4e811@mail.gmail.com...
> 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. :)

    This looks very promising, thank you.
    I'm a little embarrassed using a non-Ruby solution solicited from a Ruby 
newsgroup...