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@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox 'archivemail' is a tool written in Python for organising and storing old email choking any of your mailboxes. It can move messages older than a -certain number of days to a separate 'archive' mailbox which can be -compressed with bzip2, gzip or compress. +certain number of days to a separate 'archive' mbox-format mailbox which +can be compressed with bzip2, gzip or compress. For example, have you been subscribing to the 'linux-kernel' mailing list for the last 6 years and ended up with an 160-meg mailbox that 'mutt' is @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ just the most recent messages. overhead on your mail reader. The number of days before mail is considered 'old' is up to you, but the default is 180 days. -'archivemail' currently works on mbox-format mailboxes, and requires python -v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail instead of archiving -it. It currently only works on Unix platforms. +'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. |