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<title>archivemail - a tool for archiving and compressing old email</title>
<title>archivemail &ndash; a tool for archiving and compressing old email</title>
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<h1>archivemail</h1>
<h2>Description</h2>
<hr>
<div id="status">
<strong>Latest version: 0.7.1</strong><br>
Released on 2007-11-07
</div>
<h2>What is it?</h2>
<p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> is a tool written in <a
href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> for archiving and compressing old
email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of
days to a separate <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox
format</a> mailbox that is compressed with <a
href="http://www.gzip.org/">gzip</a>, or optionally just delete old email.
<span class="command">archivemail</span> is a tool for archiving and compressing
old email in mailboxes.
It moves messages older than the specified number of
days to a separate <a title="mbox(5) man page"
href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox format</a> mailbox that is
compressed with <span class="command">gzip</span>.
It can also just delete old email rather than archive it.
<h2>Why should I use it?</h2>
<h2>What can it do for me?</h2>
<p>
Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and
they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking
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<li>You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
</ol>
<p>
You can also use <span class="command">archivemail</span> as a simple backup
tool.
If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
<strong>archivemail</strong> can do that too.
</p>
<h2>Current Release</h2>
<p>
The current release is version <a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archivemail/archivemail-0.7.0.tar.gz?download">0.7.0</a>,
and is ready for download. Older versions are available <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">here</a>.
</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<h2>Features overview</h2>
<ul>
<li>Support for archiving
<a href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
<a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>,
<a href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and
<a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">maildir</a> format
<li>Supports archiving
<a title="about IMAP" href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
<a title="mbox(5) man page" href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>,
<a title="MH FAQ" href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and
<a title="maildir(5) man page"
href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">Maildir</a> format
mailboxes.
<li>You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old --
with the default being 180 days.
<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you
specify the <em>--include-flagged</em> option.
<li>Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
<li>Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
<li>Old mail can be either archived or just deleted.
<li>The age in days that is considered old is configurable &ndash; it defaults
to 180 days.
You can also set an absolute limit date.
<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless
explicitely requested.
<!--<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.-->
<li>Can be configured to preserve unread mail.
<li>Can be configured to only archive messages over a given byte size.
<li>Stores the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
your choice, with an extension of your choice.
<li>Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
<li>Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the
<em>--date</em> option.
<li>Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.
<li>IMAPS/SSL support.
<li>Arbitrary IMAP filter strings can added on the commandline.
<li>Easy read-only testing, not touching your valuable data.
<li>Supports IMAPS/SSL.
<li>When archiving IMAP mailboxes, the message selection can be refined by
extending the underlying IMAP <code>SEARCH</code> command with arbitrary
search keys (you will have to cope with the raw IMAP protocol, though).
</ul>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<ul>
<li> <a href="manpage.html">HTML version of the archivemail manpage</a>
<li> <a href="README">README</a> file
<li> <a href="CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>
<li> <a href="TODO">TODO</a> list
<li> <a href="RELNOTES">Release notes</a> for the latest version
</ul>
<h2>Articles</h2>
<ul>
<li> Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
<a href="http://muttfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/20/108,1,0,0,1.php3">article</a>
about archivemail for <a href="http://www.muttfr.org/">muttfr.org</a>, a
French website about <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
</ul>
<h2>License</h2>
<p>
This software is licensed under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>.
See the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for more information.
The <a href="manpage.html">archivemail manpage</a> is the primary documentation
for <span class="command">archivemail</span>.
To see what has changed in the latest version, check the <a
href="RELNOTES">release notes</a>.
If you want to have a closer look at the current development status, here's the
<a title="changelog in subversion HEAD" href=
"http://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/archivemail/trunk/CHANGELOG?revision=HEAD&amp;view=markup">
CHANGELOG</a> and the <a title="TODO list in subversion HEAD" href=
"http://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/archivemail/trunk/TODO?revision=HEAD&amp;view=markup">
TODO list</a>, fresh from the repository.
<h2>Where can I get it?</h2>
<p>
You can grab the latest version of <span class="command">archivemail</span>
directly from the <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail
download area</a> at Sourceforge.
There will hopefully be up-to-date binary RPM packages at the
<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/">OpenSUSE build
service</a> for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5 soon.
Also, many Linux distributions provide packages; e.g. there is a
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/archivemail">Debian
package</a>.
<p>
<span class="command">archivemail</span> is written in Python, and hacking it is
easy and fun; you can check out the source from the subversion repository with
the following command:
<div class="example">
<kbd>svn co https://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/archivemail/trunk</kbd>
</div>
<p>
See also the short <a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=49630">
introduction to subversion access</a> at sourceforge.
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<h3>Articles</h3>
<p>
Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
<a href="http://muttfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/20/108,1,0,0,1.php3">article
about archivemail</a> for <a href="http://www.muttfr.org/">muttfr.org</a>, a
French website about <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
-->
<h2>Getting involved</h2>
<ul>
<li>Visit the <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">archivemail
tracker</a> to browse and/or submit bug reports and feature requests.
<li>You can subscribe to the <a
href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user
mailing list</a>.
This is a low traffic, subscribers-only list.
<li>Check out the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">project page
for archivemail</a> at Sourceforge for a general overview.
</ul>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> requires python version 2.3. It also uses some
optional python modules, but these should be pretty much standard; if you get an
ImportError nonetheless, please report it, thanks. (For contact addresses see
below.)
<span class="command">archivemail</span> requires Python 2.3 or newer.
It also uses some optional python modules, but these should be pretty much
standard; if you get an ImportError nonetheless, please
<a title="jump to the archivemail tracker"
href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">report it</a>, thanks.
<h2>License</h2>
<p>
Python is available from
<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a>
<h2>Download</h2>
<p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> can be downloaded from the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail
download area on Sourceforge</a> or via
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=49630">Subversion</a>.
<p>
There should soon be binary RPM packages at
<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/">the OpenSUSE build
service</a> for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5. There is also a
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/archivemail.html">debian
package</a>.
<h2>Support</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">Browse/submit
bug reports.</a>
<li>The <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user</a> mailing list.
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">Project page
for archivemail</a> on Sourceforge.
</ul>
This software is licensed under the terms of the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>, either
version 2 of the license, or any later version.
<h2>Credits</h2>
<p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> was written by Paul Rodger
&lt;<span class="mail">paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em>
com</span>&gt;<br>
and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml &lt;<span class="mail">poeml
<em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de</span>&gt;, Nikolaus Schulz
&lt;<span class="mail">microschulz <em>at</em> web <em>dot</em>
de</span>&gt; and Brandon Knitter.
<span class="command">archivemail</span> was written by Paul Rodger
<code>&lt;paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em>
com&gt;</code>
and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <code>&lt;poeml
<em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de&gt;</code>, Nikolaus Schulz <code><a href=
"mailto:microschulz@web.de">&lt;microschulz@web.de&gt;</a></code>
and Brandon Knitter.
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