Re: best way to storing old mail (mhonarch, archivemail,...,?)

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Antonio Rodriguez(arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com) is reported to have said:
> I'm looking for opinions to archive old mail, and yet leaving it in a
> readable way. I have used mhonarc only so far, but it seems to me that
> there could be a better way, even by just gzipping mbox and creating a
> script to pipe it thorugh mutt to read it when needed. Doing apt-cache
> search I could find a bunch of options, so I am asking for user's
> experiences in this

I save all of my mailboxes at the end of the month.  I wrote a python
script that gzips, renames adding the month & year to the MB name, and
moves them to my OLD-MAIL dir.  It then recreates the empty mailbox.
This is done by a cron job just after midnight of the 1st of the new
month.

I save them in a large partition dedicated to backups.  As mutt reads
gzipped mailboxes, I have them available whenever I need them.

I wasn't aware of any package to do it at the time (2-3 years ago) that
I wrote the script.

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

Wayne
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