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* removed some superfluous links to trivial information like the pyhon.org
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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> <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> <p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> is a tool written in <a <span class="command">archivemail</span> is a tool for archiving and compressing
href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> for archiving and compressing old old email in mailboxes.
email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of It moves messages older than the specified number of
days to a separate <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox days to a separate <a title="mbox(5) man page"
format</a> mailbox that is compressed with <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox format</a> mailbox that is
href="http://www.gzip.org/">gzip</a>, or optionally just delete old email. 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> <p>
Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and 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 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. <li>You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
</ol> </ol>
<p> <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, <h2>Features overview</h2>
<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>
<ul> <ul>
<li>Support for archiving <li>Supports archiving
<a href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>, <a title="about IMAP" href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
<a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>, <a title="mbox(5) man page" 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 title="MH FAQ" 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 <a title="maildir(5) man page"
href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">Maildir</a> format
mailboxes. mailboxes.
<li>You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old -- <li>Old mail can be either archived or just deleted.
with the default being 180 days. <li>The age in days that is considered old is configurable &ndash; it defaults
<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you to 180 days.
specify the <em>--include-flagged</em> option. You can also set an absolute limit date.
<li>Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox. <li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless
<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived. explicitely requested.
<li>Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of <!--<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. your choice, with an extension of your choice.
<li>Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it. <li>Easy read-only testing, not touching your valuable data.
<li>Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the <li>Supports IMAPS/SSL.
<em>--date</em> option. <li>When archiving IMAP mailboxes, the message selection can be refined by
<li>Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size. extending the underlying IMAP <code>SEARCH</code> command with arbitrary
<li>IMAPS/SSL support. search keys (you will have to cope with the raw IMAP protocol, though).
<li>Arbitrary IMAP filter strings can added on the commandline.
</ul> </ul>
<h2>Documentation</h2> <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> <p>
This software is licensed under the The <a href="manpage.html">archivemail manpage</a> is the primary documentation
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>. for <span class="command">archivemail</span>.
See the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for more information. 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.
<!-- 2007-11-06: this site has problems, and I cannot read the mentioned article.
<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> <h2>Requirements</h2>
<p> <p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> requires python version 2.3. It also uses some <span class="command">archivemail</span> requires Python 2.3 or newer.
optional python modules, but these should be pretty much standard; if you get an It also uses some optional python modules, but these should be pretty much
ImportError nonetheless, please report it, thanks. (For contact addresses see standard; if you get an ImportError nonetheless, please
below.) <a title="jump to the archivemail tracker"
href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">report it</a>, thanks.
<h2>License</h2>
<p> <p>
This software is licensed under the terms of the
Python is available from <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>, either
<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a> version 2 of the license, or any later version.
<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>
<h2>Credits</h2> <h2>Credits</h2>
<p> <p>
<strong>archivemail</strong> was written by Paul Rodger <span class="command">archivemail</span> was written by Paul Rodger
&lt;<span class="mail">paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em> <code>&lt;paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em>
com</span>&gt;<br> com&gt;</code>
and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml &lt;<span class="mail">poeml and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <code>&lt;poeml
<em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de</span>&gt;, Nikolaus Schulz <em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de&gt;</code>, Nikolaus Schulz <code><a href=
&lt;<span class="mail">microschulz <em>at</em> web <em>dot</em> "mailto:microschulz@web.de">&lt;microschulz@web.de&gt;</a></code>
de</span>&gt; and Brandon Knitter. and Brandon Knitter.
<hr> <hr>
<p> <p>
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