How to save email sorted by date?

Question

I seem to remember a patch to mutt that allowed to modify the path of the mailbox in mbox-hook in include the date. For example, you could have this:

mbox-hook Maildir +Archive/%y/%m/maildir

Which would save the emails in Archive/2011/12/maildir if they were send during December 2011.

Anyone knows what it was called or if it still is supported? I seem to remember that there was an option in the BSD ports to enable it but cannot find it now.

If not, does anyone know how I could achieve the same thing?

Answer 1

It is called mbox-hook supporting printf-like sequnces in mailbox. Sadly, it appears not to be maintained any more.

However, it appears that you can still use the patch if you know how to code.