removing part of a mailbox based upon date

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From: brian (nospam_at_none.org)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:17:03 -0500

I have a few users with extremely large mail boxes, nearly 5gb.
Basically, they want to have access to every piece of mail they've ever
gotten, going back 4 years or so. The problem is the database is growing
massive and slow.

What I'd like to do is keep only the last 6 months or so on the server,
and have them access anything older than that via a pst file. How can I
remove (I know I can extract it using exmerge) all the mail prior to a
certain date from an individual mailbox? Or is there a better way to go
about it? Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

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