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--archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old -email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of -days to a separate mbox -format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email. +archivemail is a tool for archiving and compressing +old email in mailboxes. +It moves messages older than the specified number of +days to a separate mbox format mailbox that is +compressed with gzip. +It can also just delete old email rather than archive it. -
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 @@ -41,119 +60,132 @@ compressed mailbox will mean:
+You can also use archivemail as a simple backup +tool. -If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it, -archivemail can do that too. -
- -- The current release is version 0.7.0, - and is ready for download. Older versions are available here. -
- - -SEARCH
command with arbitrary
+ search keys (you will have to cope with the raw IMAP protocol, though).
-This software is licensed under the -GNU GPL. -See the file COPYING for more information. +The archivemail manpage is the primary documentation +for archivemail. +To see what has changed in the latest version, check the release notes. +If you want to have a closer look at the current development status, here's the + +CHANGELOG and the +TODO list, fresh from the repository. + +
+You can grab the latest version of archivemail +directly from the archivemail +download area at Sourceforge. +There will hopefully be up-to-date binary RPM packages at the +OpenSUSE build +service for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5 soon. +Also, many Linux distributions provide packages; e.g. there is a +Debian +package. + +
+archivemail 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: +
+See also the short +introduction to subversion access at sourceforge. + + + +
-archivemail 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.) +archivemail 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 +report it, thanks. +
- -Python is available from -http://www.python.org/ - -
-archivemail can be downloaded from the -archivemail -download area on Sourceforge or via -Subversion. -
-There should soon be binary RPM packages at -the OpenSUSE build -service for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5. There is also a -debian -package. - -
-archivemail was written by Paul Rodger
-<paul at paulrodger dot
-com>
-and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <poeml
-at suse dot de>, Nikolaus Schulz
-<microschulz at web dot
-de> and Brandon Knitter.
+archivemail was written by Paul Rodger
+<paul at paulrodger dot
+ com>
+and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <poeml
+ at suse dot de>
, Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
+and Brandon Knitter.