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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ overhead on your mail reader. The number of days before mail is considered '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, +'archivemail' currently works on mbox, maildir and MH format mailboxes and requires python v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail instead of archiving it with the '--delete' option. @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ 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. +Another good option to remember is the '--dry-run' or '-n' option, which will +just show you how many messages it would have archived without actually +writing to the disk. + 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 |