Re: splitting a large newsgroup or mailinglist folder

On 8 Apr 2014 Jim Nagel  wrote:

> I have a few mailinglists and newsgroups that are large and slow to
> open.  For reasons of my own, I don't want to expire old messages, but
> I'd like to hive off older ones to a separate "group" in MPro.

> Can anybody provide a "recipe" for doing this, please?  Suppose I want
> to end up with messages from 2013 and 2014 in the current folder and
> messages from 2012 and before in an archive folder.

Do a 'Search messages' for Date < Tue, 1st January 2013
In the search results window 'Select all' then
Selection > Move to > New folder
Enter new folder name and tick 'Designate as archive group'
Click 'Create'

That should do the job.

You might want to strip the attachments from your archive group on the 
grounds that you probably saved anything important somewhere else.

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