Re: [sup-talk] archive all messages before a certain date?

["Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@MIT.EDU>]

Excerpts from Michael Stipicevic's message of Wed Sep 22 14:18:30 -0400 2010:
> I'm not sure if this is on the web anywhere (I've tried a few searches and
> not much came up): what is the most straightforward way to archive all
> messages before a certain date? I just loaded up a huge mail store and want
> to archive everything before, say, March this year. I've tried various
> combinations of chronic commands and the 'g' to tag threads but I'm not
> getting anywhere. Also, sup seems built to *toggle* threads rather than
> force them to a certain state (+inbox or -inbox). Any ideas?

The best strategy I've found is to dump the inbox, do a manual search replace
on the appropriate range of the inbox tag, and then load it back up again.

Edward
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