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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGELOG | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | archivemail.py | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.sgml | 6 |
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ +Version 0.6.2 - ??? + * Use the archive cut date rather than the actual time with the --suffix + option. (Thanks Manuel Estrada Sainz) + Version 0.6.1 - 31 October 2002 * Removed a test rule that we could archive messages older than the Unix epoch. Newer versions of python now give an overflow error calling @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ .archivemailrc support +Specify an option to not seteuid() when run as root? + When you get a file-not-found in the 6th mailbox of 10, it aborts the whole run. Better to fail gracefully and keep going. diff --git a/archivemail.py b/archivemail.py index e8f3aab..87fc33b 100755 --- a/archivemail.py +++ b/archivemail.py @@ -993,8 +993,13 @@ def archive(mailbox_name): os.umask(077) # saves setting permissions on mailboxes/tempfiles # allow the user to embed time formats such as '%B' in the suffix string + if options.date_old_max == None: + parsed_suffix_time = time.time() - options.days_old_max*24*60*60 + else: + parsed_suffix_time = options.date_old_max + parsed_suffix = time.strftime(options.archive_suffix, - time.localtime(time.time())) + time.localtime(parsed_suffix_time)) if mailbox_name[:7].lower() == 'imap://': final_archive_name = mailbox_name.split('/')[-1] + parsed_suffix diff --git a/archivemail.sgml b/archivemail.sgml index 1807c2f..43b5d4a 100644 --- a/archivemail.sgml +++ b/archivemail.sgml @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ with the filename <filename>exsouthrock_archive.gz</filename>. <Para> <Replaceable/NAME/ is run through the &python; <application/time.strftime()/ function, which means that you can specify any of the following special -directives in <Replaceable/NAME/ to make archives named after the current -date: +directives in <Replaceable/NAME/ to make archives named after the archive +cut-off date: <itemizedlist mark='none'> <listitem><para><option>%a</option> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called <Para> To archive all messages in the mailbox <filename>debian-user</filename> that are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called -<filename>debian-user_April_2002.gz</filename> (where the current month and +<filename>debian-user_October_2001.gz</filename> (where the current month and year is April, 2002) in the current directory: <screen> <prompt>bash$ </prompt><userinput>archivemail --suffix '_%B_%Y' debian-user</userinput> |