Re: Archiver Cron Jobs
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:34:04AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of
> > all of my folders in ~/mail. The way I have my mail set up is one
> > folder per box, for example my folders are:
> >
> > ~/mail/inbox
> > ~/mail/debian-user
> > ~/mail/sent
> >
> > I'd like the Cron job to archive these on a weekly basis, but not
> > exactly on a weekly basis.
>
> Instead of reinventing the wheel; Why not use something like
> archivemail?
>
> # aptitude show archivemail
> Package: archivemail
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> Uncompressed Size: 139k
> Depends: python
> Description:
> archive and compress your old email
> Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or
> mbox format, or via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed
> mbox-format mailbox file. It is well suited to be run from cron for
> automatic archiving of your old mail.
>
Wow, nice find! I'll definitely toy around with this sometime today.
Oh, and it's in maildir format, since that's the only way I could get
Mutt to do what I wanted (Mbox didn't seem to work right the way I was
trying to set it up, although I don't mind using maildir instead of
mbox).
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