Use the archive cut-off date rather than the current time with the

--suffix option.

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+Version 0.6.2   - ???
+  * Use the archive cut date rather than the actual time with the --suffix
+    option. (Thanks Manuel Estrada Sainz)
+
 Version 0.6.1   - 31 October 2002
   * Removed a test rule that we could archive messages older than the 
     Unix epoch. Newer versions of python now give an overflow error calling

TODO

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 .archivemailrc support
 
+Specify an option to not seteuid() when run as root?
+
 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.
 

archivemail.py

@@ -993,8 +993,13 @@ def archive(mailbox_name):
     os.umask(077) # saves setting permissions on mailboxes/tempfiles
 
     # allow the user to embed time formats such as '%B' in the suffix string
+    if options.date_old_max == None:
+        parsed_suffix_time = time.time() - options.days_old_max*24*60*60
+    else:
+        parsed_suffix_time = options.date_old_max
+
     parsed_suffix = time.strftime(options.archive_suffix, 
-        time.localtime(time.time()))
+        time.localtime(parsed_suffix_time))
 
     if mailbox_name[:7].lower() == 'imap://':
         final_archive_name = mailbox_name.split('/')[-1] + parsed_suffix

archivemail.sgml

@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ with the filename <filename>exsouthrock_archive.gz</filename>.
 <Para>
 <Replaceable/NAME/ is run through the &python; <application/time.strftime()/
 function, which means that you can specify any of the following special
-directives in <Replaceable/NAME/ to make archives named after the current
-date:
+directives in <Replaceable/NAME/ to make archives named after the archive
+cut-off date:
 
 <itemizedlist mark='none'>
     <listitem><para><option>%a</option> 
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called
 <Para>
 To archive all messages in the mailbox <filename>debian-user</filename> that
 are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called
-<filename>debian-user_April_2002.gz</filename> (where the current month and
+<filename>debian-user_October_2001.gz</filename> (where the current month and
 year is April, 2002) in the current directory: 
 <screen>
 <prompt>bash$ </prompt><userinput>archivemail --suffix '_%B_%Y' debian-user</userinput>