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diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index f1b4dd0..0daa264 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "31 July 2010" "SP" "" +.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "09 August 2010" "SP" "" .SH NAME archivemail \- archive and compress your old email @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ to only archive messages larger than a specified size. .PP To archive an \fBIMAP\fR-format mailbox, use the format \fIimap://username:password@server/mailbox\fR to specify the mailbox. +\fBarchivemail\fR will expand wildcards in \fBIMAP\fR mailbox +names according to RFC 3501, which says: ``The character "*" is a wildcard, and matches zero or more characters at this +position. The character "%" is similar to "*", but it does not match a +hierarchy delimiter.'' You can omit the password from the URL; use the \fB--pwfile\fR option to make \fBarchivemail\fR read the password from a file, or alternatively just enter it upon request. @@ -426,6 +430,16 @@ bash$ \fBarchivemail -o $HOME/Mail/Archive imaps://user:'"'$PASSWORD'"'@example. .fi .PP Note the protected quotes. +.PP +.PP +To archive all mails older than 180 days in subfolders of "foo" on the +given \fBIMAP\fR server to corresponding archives in the current +working directory, reading the password from the file +\fI~/imap-pass.txt\fR: + +.nf + bash$ \fBarchivemail --pwfile=~/imap-pass.txt imaps://user@example.org/foo/*\fR +.fi .SH "TIPS" .PP Probably the best way to run \fBarchivemail\fR is from your \fBcrontab\fR(5) |