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+ archivemail - a tool for archiving and compressing old email
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archivemail
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Description
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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.
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Why should I use 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
+up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate,
+compressed mailbox will mean:
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Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading
+ your mail.
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You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed.
+ (Mail usually compresses quite nicely.)
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You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
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+If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
+archivemail can do that too.
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Features
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Support for archiving
+ IMAP,
+ mbox,
+ MH and
+ maildir format
+ mailboxes.
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You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old --
+ with the default being 180 days.
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Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you
+ specify the --include-flagged option.
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Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
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You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
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Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
+ your choice, with an extension of your choice.
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Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
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Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the
+ --date option.
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Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.
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Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
+article
+about archivemail for muttfr.org, a
+French website about mutt.
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License
+This software is licensed under the
+GNU GPL.
+See the file COPYING for more information.
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Requirements
+archivemail requires python version 2.0 or later, with the
+optional zlib
+module, although the zlib module comes with most python installations. If
+you are compiling your own version of python less than version 2.2, make sure
+you uncomment the 'zlib' moduile in Modules/Setup in the python source
+directory.
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+You can check to see if your version of python has the 'zlib' module by trying
+this:
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+ flare:~$ python
+ Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 26 2002, 11:22:45)
+ [GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
+ Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+ >>> import zlib
+ >>>
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+If you get an ImportError, then the zlib python module has not been installed.
+Try upgrading your python distribution.
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