Re: Archiving of big mailboxes
Paul Rodger wrote:
> I've also written a tool that might help: it moves messages in mbox, MH or
> Maildir-format mailboxes that are older than the specified number of days
> to gzipped mbox-format mailboxes.
>
> It uses about 5 different methods to guess the delivery date of mail, which
> helps if you have mangled or non-existent Delivery-Date/Date headers. It
> also has a '--delete' option if you prefer to delete old mail rather than
> archive it. It uses lockfiles and flock() calls to play nicely with
> procmail and mail clients.
>
> It is designed to be run from your crontab and requires python version 2.0
> or later.
>
> The website is here: http://archivemail.sf.net/
If you can add an option to just move mail that has been read, and keep
unread mail no matter what age (or better yet, move mail that was read
and received at least n days ago), I'll use this, and package it for
debian.
Oh and a way to make it not compress the resulting mbox.
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