Re: best way to storing old mail (mhonarch, archivemail,...,?)
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:05:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> 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.
>
Could you please provide your script?
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