Re: Archiving of big mailboxes
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Don't forget that it should never move flagged/ticked mail as well.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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