Fixed bugs where archivemail would refuse to work on python version less than

2.2.

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 8506f62..5c70188 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,13 +3,7 @@
 archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
-INSTALLATION:
-
-To install archivemail, run:
-    python setup.py install
-
-
-USE:
+OVERVIEW:
 
 archivemail is a tool written in python(1) for archiving and compressing old
 email in mailboxes. 
@@ -25,19 +19,54 @@ just the most recent messages.
 
 'archivemail' can save a lot of disk space and will significantly reduce
 overhead on your mail reader. The number of days before mail is considered
-'old' is up to you, but the default is 180 days. 
+'old' is up to you, but the default is 180 days. You can also archive messages
+by an absolute date or only archive unread messages.
 
-For more detailed information, look at the archivemail man page.
 
-'archivemail' currently works on mbox, maildir and MH format mailboxes
-and requires python v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail
-instead of archiving it with the '--delete' option.
+REQUIREMENTS:
+
+archivemail requires python version 2.0 or later, with the optional 'zlib'
+module, although the zlib module comes with most python installations.  If you
+are compiling your own version of python < version 2.2, make sure you
+uncomment the 'zlib' moduile in Modules/Setup in the python source directory.
+
+You can check to see if you version of python has the 'zlib' module by 
+trying this:
+
+    flare:~$ python
+    Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 26 2002, 11:22:45)
+    [GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
+    Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+    >>> import zlib
+    >>>
+
+If you get an ImportError, then the zlib python module has not been installed.
+Try upgrading your python distribution.
+
+Python is available from http://www.python.org/
 
-The best way to run archivemail is from cron. Giving the '-q' option to
-archivemail will make it quiet, only printing messages if something went 
-wrong. Check out the 'examples' directory for an example shell script to 
-be run from cron.
+If you want to run the bundled test script, you will need python version 2.1
+or later, because we use the PyUnit 'unittest' module. Sorry.
+
+
+INSTALLATION:
+
+To install archivemail, run:
+    python setup.py install
+
+
+USE:
+
+For more detailed information, look at the archivemail man page.
+
+The best way to run archivemail is from cron, giving the '-q' option to
+archivemail to make it quiet, only printing messages if something went wrong.
+Check out the 'examples' directory for an example shell script to be run from
+cron.
 
 The archivemail website is at: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
 
+If you have any feedback or bug reports about archivemail, you are very
+welcome to email me.
+
 -- Paul Rodger <paul@paulrodger.com>