Fixed a bug where we would throw an exception if a message was dated

exactly on the unix epoch. Also fixed a bug where trailing slashes
were being passed to the archive file name.

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Version 0.4.9   - 18 August 2002
+  * Fixed a bug where an exception was thrown if a message was dated exactly
+    on the Unix epoch.
+  * Fixed a bug where trailing slashes on the end of maildir/MH mailbox
+    arguments were being used in the archive name.
+
 Version 0.4.8   - 20 May 2002
   * Call mkdir() to create a container directory in which we can place any
     created tempfiles 

FAQ

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+1. Why doesn't archivemail support bzip2 compression in addition to gzip?
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+I am quite happy to add bzip2 support to archivemail as soon as a 'bzip2'
+module (similar to the gzip module) is available for python.  
+[ Hint hint ;) ]

MANIFEST

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 CHANGELOG
 COPYING
+FAQ
 MANIFEST
 README
 TODO

Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-VERSION=0.4.8
+VERSION=0.4.9
 VERSION_TAG=v$(subst .,_,$(VERSION))
 TARFILE=archivemail-$(VERSION).tar.gz
 

TODO

@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 
-Goals for next minor release (0.4.9):
+Goals for next minor release (0.5.0):
 -------------------------------------
-* When you get a file-not-found in the 6th mailbox of 10, it aborts
+* When you get a file-not-found in the 6th mailbox of 10, it aborts the whole
+  run. Better to fail gracefully and keep going.
 * Think about the best way to specify the names of archives created with
   possibly an --archive-name option.
 * Add more tests (see top of test_archivemail.py)
 * We need some better checking to see if we are really looking at a valid
   mbox-format mailbox.
-
-Goals for next major release (0.5.0):
--------------------------------------
 * Lock any original .gz files 
   - is this necessary?
 * Check for symlink attacks for tempfiles (although we don't use /var/tmp)

archivemail.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Website: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
 """
 
 # global administrivia 
-__version__ = "archivemail v0.4.8"
+__version__ = "archivemail v0.4.9"
 __cvs_id__ = "$Id$"
 __copyright__ = """Copyright (C) 2002  Paul Rodger <paul@paulrodger.com>
 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
@@ -679,7 +679,6 @@ def guess_delivery_time(message):
             date = message.getdate(header)
             if date:
                 time_message = time.mktime(date)
-                assert(time_message)
                 vprint("using valid time found from '%s' header" % header)
                 return time_message
         except (IndexError, ValueError, OverflowError): pass
@@ -915,6 +914,12 @@ def archive(mailbox_name):
     """
     assert(mailbox_name) 
 
+    # strip any trailing slash (we could be archiving a maildir or MH format
+    # mailbox and somebody was pressing <tab> in bash) - we don't want to use
+    # the trailing slash in the archive name
+    mailbox_name = re.sub("/$", "", mailbox_name)
+    assert(mailbox_name) 
+
     set_signal_handlers()
     os.umask(077) # saves setting permissions on mailboxes/tempfiles
 

setup.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ check_python_version()  # define & run this early - 'distutils.core' is new
 from distutils.core import setup
 
 setup(name="archivemail",
-      version="0.4.8",
+      version="0.4.9",
       description="archive and compress old email",
       license="GNU GPL",
       url="http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/",