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archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox
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INSTALLATION:
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To install archivemail, run:
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python setup.py install
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USE:
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archivemail is a tool written in python(1) for archiving and compressing old
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email in mailboxes.
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It can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate
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'archive' mbox-format mailbox that is compressed with 'gzip'.
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For example, have you been subscribing to the 'linux-kernel' mailing list
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for the last 6 years and ended up with an 160-meg mailbox that 'mutt' is
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taking a long time to load? 'archivemail' can move all messages that are
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older than 6 months to a separate compressed mailbox, and leave you with
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just the most recent messages.
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'archivemail' can save a lot of disk space and will significantly reduce
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overhead on your mail reader. The number of days before mail is considered
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'old' is up to you, but the default is 180 days.
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For more detailed information, look at the archivemail man page.
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'archivemail' currently works on mbox, maildir and MH format mailboxes
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and requires python v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail
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instead of archiving it with the '--delete' option.
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The best way to run archivemail is from cron. Giving the '-q' option to
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archivemail will make it quiet, only printing messages if something went
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wrong. Check out the 'examples' directory for an example shell script to
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be run from cron.
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The archivemail website is at: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
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-- Paul Rodger <paul@paulrodger.com>
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