Re: Move message of a given year into new group

[Adam Sjøgren]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

> So I would like to move all mails before 2011 into groups Archive.YEAR,
> where YEAR is the year of the email. 

Maybe you can use the limiting functions to get to this?

,----
| / t runs the command gnus-summary-limit-to-age, which is an
| interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'.
| 
| It is bound to / t, <menu-bar> <Gnus> <Limit to> <Age...>.
| 
| (gnus-summary-limit-to-age AGE &optional YOUNGER-P)
| 
| Limit the summary buffer to articles that are older than (or equal) AGE days.
| If YOUNGER-P (the prefix) is non-nil, limit the summary buffer to
| articles that are younger than AGE days.
`----

I would have thought that something something like / x Date 2011 RET
would be possible, but it doesn't seem to work for me (even though I
have Date in gnus-extra-headers); I don't know why.

If this is a one-off thing, of course.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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