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3 archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox
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6 OVERVIEW:
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8 archivemail is a tool written in python(1) for archiving and compressing old
9 email in mailboxes.
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11 It can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate
12 'archive' mbox-format mailbox that is compressed with 'gzip'.
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14 For example, have you been subscribing to the 'linux-kernel' mailing list
15 for the last 6 years and ended up with an 160-meg mailbox that 'mutt' is
16 taking a long time to load? 'archivemail' can move all messages that are
17 older than 6 months to a separate compressed mailbox, and leave you with
18 just the most recent messages.
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20 'archivemail' can save a lot of disk space and will significantly reduce
21 overhead on your mail reader. The number of days before mail is considered
22 'old' is up to you, but the default is 180 days. You can also archive messages
23 by an absolute date or only archive unread messages.
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26 REQUIREMENTS:
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28 archivemail requires python version 2.3. It also uses some optional python
29 modules, but these should be pretty much standard; if you get an ImportError
30 nonetheless, please report it, thanks. (For contact addresses see below.)
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32 Python is available from http://www.python.org/
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35 INSTALLATION:
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37 If you want to test archivemail:
38 python test_archivemail
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40 To install archivemail, run:
41 python setup.py install
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44 USE:
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46 For more detailed information and examples, look at the archivemail man page.
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48 The best way to run archivemail is from cron, giving the '-q' option to
49 archivemail to make it quiet, only printing messages if something went wrong.
50 Check out the 'examples' directory for an example shell script to be run from
51 cron.
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53 The archivemail website is at: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
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55 If you have any feedback or bug reports about archivemail, you are very
56 welcome to email the maintainers; as of November 2006, these are:
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58 Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
59 Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>
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62 -- Paul Rodger <paul at paulrodger dot com>, archivemail author
63 Updated by: Nikolaus Schulz, maintainer