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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ + +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. + +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 +taking a long time to load? 'archivemail' can move all messages that are +older than 6 months to a separate compressed mailbox, and leave you with +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. + +'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. |