#!/bin/sh if [ -z "$2" ]; then >&2 echo "Usage: $0 " exit 1 fi src="$1" arch="$2" begin="2010" if ! [ -d "$arch/cur" ]; then >&2 echo "Folder $arch does not appear to be a maildir" exit 1 fi umask 700 for y in $(seq "$begin" "$(date '+%Y')" | sort -r); do mkdir -p "$arch/$y/cur" "$arch/$y/new" "$arch/$y/tmp" mails=$(mlist "$src" | mpick -t "date <= \"$y-12-31\" && date >= \"$y-01-01\" && date < \"-180d\"" 2> /dev/null) >&2 printf 'The year is %s. %s emails to sort\n' "$y" "$(echo "$mails" | wc -l)" echo "$mails" | mrefile "$arch/$y" done