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'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. To see the options
+archivemail supports, try running 'archivemail --help'.
'archivemail' currently works on mbox-format and maildir-format mailboxes,
and requires python v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail
-instead of archiving it.
+instead of archiving it with the '--delete' option.
+
+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.
+
+archivemail is not exactly blazingly quick at the moment, but if you run it
+from cron you won't mind. Archiving from maildir mailboxes instead of 'mbox'
+is a lot quicker too, since we don't have to do to as much effort to delete
+mail from the original mailbox.
+
+Here is an example script I use for running archivemail from cron:
+__________________________________________________________________________
+
+#!/bin/sh
+#set -x
+set -e
+ARCMAIL="archivemail --output-dir=$HOME/Mail/Archive/ "
+
+$ARCMAIL --days 30 --delete $HOME/Mail/duplicates
+$ARCMAIL --days 90 $HOME/Mail/bugtraq \
+ $HOME/Mail/debian-devel \
+ $HOME/Mail/debian-mentors \
+ $HOME/Mail/debian-user \
+ $HOME/Mail/jobs \
+ $HOME/Mail/linux-kernel \
+ $HOME/Mail/python-list \
+ $HOME/Mail/spam \
+ $HOME/Mail/spam-l \
+$ARCMAIL $HOME/Mail/cm-melb \
+ $HOME/Mail/exsouthrock \
+ $HOME/Mail/received \
+ $HOME/Mail/sent \
+ $HOME/Mail/vim
+__________________________________________________________________________
+
+The archivemail website is at: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
+
+-- Paul Rodger <paul@paulrodger.com>