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<title>archivemail - a tool for archiving and compressing old email</title>
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<h1>archivemail</h1>
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<h2>Description</h2>
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<strong>archivemail</strong> is a tool written in <a
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href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> for archiving and compressing old
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email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of
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days to a separate <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox
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format</a> mailbox that is compressed with <a
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href="http://www.gzip.org/">gzip</a>, or optionally just delete old email.
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<h2>Why should I use it?</h2>
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Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and
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they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking
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up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate,
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compressed mailbox will mean:
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<ol>
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<li>Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading
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your mail.
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<li>You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed.
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(Mail usually compresses quite nicely.)
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<li>You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
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If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
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<strong>archivemail</strong> can do that too.
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<h2>Current Release</h2>
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The current release is version <a
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href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archivemail/archivemail-0.6.1.tar.gz?download">0.6.1</a>,
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and is ready for download. Older versions are available <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">here</a>.
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<h2>Features</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Support for archiving
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<a href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
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<a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>,
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<a href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and
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<a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">maildir</a> format
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mailboxes.
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<li>You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old --
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with the default being 180 days.
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<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you
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specify the <em>--include-flagged</em> option.
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<li>Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
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<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
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<li>Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
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your choice, with an extension of your choice.
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<li>Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
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<li>Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the
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<em>--date</em> option.
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<li>Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.
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</ul>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<li> <a href="manpage.html">HTML version of the archivemail manpage</a>
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<li> <a href="README">README</a> file
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<li> <a href="CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>
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<li> <a href="TODO">TODO</a> list
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<h2>Articles</h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
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<a href="http://muttfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/20/108,1,0,0,1.php3">article</a>
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about archivemail for <a href="http://www.muttfr.org/">muttfr.org</a>, a
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French website about <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
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</ul>
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<h2>License</h2>
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This software is licensed under the
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>.
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See the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for more information.
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
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<strong>archivemail</strong> requires python version 2.0 or later, with the
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optional <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-zlib.html">zlib
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module</a>, although the zlib module comes with most python installations. If
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you are compiling your own version of python less than version 2.2, make sure
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you uncomment the 'zlib' moduile in Modules/Setup in the python source
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directory.
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<p>
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You can check to see if your version of python has the 'zlib' module by trying
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this:
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<pre>
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flare:~$ python
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Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 26 2002, 11:22:45)
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[GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
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Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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>>> import zlib
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>>>
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</pre>
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If you get an ImportError, then the zlib python module has not been installed.
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Try upgrading your python distribution.
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Python is available from
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<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a>
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If you want to run the bundled test script, you will need python version 2.1
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or later, because we use the
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<a href="http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/">PyUnit unittest module</a>. Sorry.
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<h2>Download</h2>
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<strong>archivemail</strong> can be downloaded from the
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail
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download area on Sourceforge</a> or via
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=49630">CVS</a>. There is also a
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<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/archivemail.html">debian
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package</a>.
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<p>
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<h2>Support</h2>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">Browse/submit
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bug reports.</a>
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<li>The <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user</a> mailing list.
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">Project page
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for archivemail</a> on Sourceforge.
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</ul>
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<h2>Credits</h2>
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<strong>archivemail</strong> was written by Paul Rodger
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<<u>paul</u> <em>at</em> <u>paulrodger</u> <em>dot</em> <u>com</u>>
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currently maintained by Brandon Knitter
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