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- <title>archivemail - a tool for archiving and compressing old email</title>
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<h1>archivemail</h1>
-<h2>Description</h2>
-
+<hr>
+<div id="status">
+ <strong>Latest version: 0.7.1</strong><br>
+ Released on 2007-11-07
+</div>
+<h2>What is it?</h2>
<p>
-<strong>archivemail</strong> is a tool written in <a
-href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> for archiving and compressing old
-email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of
-days to a separate <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox
-format</a> mailbox that is compressed with <a
-href="http://www.gzip.org/">gzip</a>, or optionally just delete old email.
-
-<h2>Why should I use it?</h2>
+<span class="command">archivemail</span> is a tool for archiving and compressing
+old email in mailboxes.
+It moves messages older than the specified number of
+days to a separate <a title="mbox(5) man page"
+href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox format</a> mailbox that is
+compressed with <span class="command">gzip</span>.
+It can also just delete old email rather than archive it.
+
+<h2>What can it do for me?</h2>
<p>
Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and
they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking
@@ -41,119 +60,132 @@ compressed mailbox will mean:
<li>You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
</ol>
<p>
+You can also use <span class="command">archivemail</span> as a simple backup
+tool.
-If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
-<strong>archivemail</strong> can do that too.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Current Release</h2>
-<p>
- The current release is version <a
- href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archivemail/archivemail-0.7.0.tar.gz?download">0.7.0</a>,
- and is ready for download. Older versions are available <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">here</a>.
-</p>
-
-
-<h2>Features</h2>
-
+<h2>Features overview</h2>
<ul>
-<li>Support for archiving
- <a href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
- <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>,
- <a href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and
- <a href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">maildir</a> format
+<li>Supports archiving
+ <a title="about IMAP" href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>,
+ <a title="mbox(5) man page" href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>,
+ <a title="MH FAQ" href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and
+ <a title="maildir(5) man page"
+ href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">Maildir</a> format
mailboxes.
-<li>You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old --
- with the default being 180 days.
-<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you
- specify the <em>--include-flagged</em> option.
-<li>Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
-<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
-<li>Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
+<li>Old mail can be either archived or just deleted.
+<li>The age in days that is considered old is configurable &ndash; it defaults
+ to 180 days.
+ You can also set an absolute limit date.
+<li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless
+ explicitely requested.
+<!--<li>You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.-->
+<li>Can be configured to preserve unread mail.
+<li>Can be configured to only archive messages over a given byte size.
+<li>Stores the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
your choice, with an extension of your choice.
-<li>Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
-<li>Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the
- <em>--date</em> option.
-<li>Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.
-<li>IMAPS/SSL support.
-<li>Arbitrary IMAP filter strings can added on the commandline.
+<li>Easy read-only testing, not touching your valuable data.
+<li>Supports IMAPS/SSL.
+<li>When archiving IMAP mailboxes, the message selection can be refined by
+ extending the underlying IMAP <code>SEARCH</code> command with arbitrary
+ search keys (you will have to cope with the raw IMAP protocol, though).
</ul>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
-<ul>
-<li> <a href="manpage.html">HTML version of the archivemail manpage</a>
-<li> <a href="README">README</a> file
-<li> <a href="CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>
-<li> <a href="TODO">TODO</a> list
-<li> <a href="RELNOTES">Release notes</a> for the latest version
-</ul>
-
-
-<h2>Articles</h2>
-<ul>
-<li> Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
-<a href="http://muttfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/20/108,1,0,0,1.php3">article</a>
-about archivemail for <a href="http://www.muttfr.org/">muttfr.org</a>, a
-French website about <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
-</ul>
-
-<h2>License</h2>
<p>
-This software is licensed under the
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>.
-See the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for more information.
-
-<h2>Requirements</h2>
+The <a href="manpage.html">archivemail manpage</a> is the primary documentation
+for <span class="command">archivemail</span>.
+To see what has changed in the latest version, check the <a
+ href="RELNOTES">release notes</a>.
+If you want to have a closer look at the current development status, here's the
+<a title="changelog in subversion HEAD" href=
+"http://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/archivemail/trunk/CHANGELOG?revision=HEAD&amp;view=markup">
+CHANGELOG</a> and the <a title="TODO list in subversion HEAD" href=
+"http://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/archivemail/trunk/TODO?revision=HEAD&amp;view=markup">
+TODO list</a>, fresh from the repository.
+
+<h2>Where can I get it?</h2>
<p>
-<strong>archivemail</strong> requires python version 2.3. It also uses some
-optional python modules, but these should be pretty much standard; if you get an
-ImportError nonetheless, please report it, thanks. (For contact addresses see
-below.)
+You can grab the latest version of <span class="command">archivemail</span>
+directly from the <a
+href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail
+download area</a> at Sourceforge.
+There will hopefully be up-to-date binary RPM packages at the
+<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/">OpenSUSE build
+service</a> for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5 soon.
+Also, many Linux distributions provide packages; e.g. there is a
+<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/archivemail">Debian
+package</a>.
<p>
-
-Python is available from
-<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a>
-
-<h2>Download</h2>
+<span class="command">archivemail</span> is written in Python, and hacking it is
+easy and fun; you can check out the source from the subversion repository with
+the following command:
+<div class="example">
+<kbd>svn co https://archivemail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/archivemail/trunk</kbd>
+</div>
<p>
-<strong>archivemail</strong> can be downloaded from the
-<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail
-download area on Sourceforge</a> or via
-<a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=49630">Subversion</a>.
+See also the short <a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=49630">
+introduction to subversion access</a> at sourceforge.
+
+<!-- 2007-11-06: this site has problems, and I cannot read the mentioned article.
+ <h3>Articles</h3>
+ <p>
+ Emmanuel Seyman wrote an
+ <a href="http://muttfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/20/108,1,0,0,1.php3">article
+ about archivemail</a> for <a href="http://www.muttfr.org/">muttfr.org</a>, a
+ French website about <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
+-->
+
+<h2>Getting involved</h2>
+<ul>
+ <li>Visit the <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">archivemail
+ tracker</a> to browse and/or submit bug reports and feature requests.
+ <li>You can subscribe to the <a
+ href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user
+ mailing list</a>.
+ This is a low traffic, subscribers-only list.
+<li>Check out the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">project page
+ for archivemail</a> at Sourceforge for a general overview.
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>
-There should soon be binary RPM packages at
-<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/">the OpenSUSE build
-service</a> for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5. There is also a
-<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/archivemail.html">debian
-package</a>.
+<span class="command">archivemail</span> requires Python 2.3 or newer.
+It also uses some optional python modules, but these should be pretty much
+standard; if you get an ImportError nonetheless, please
+<a title="jump to the archivemail tracker"
+href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">report it</a>, thanks.
-<h2>Support</h2>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">Browse/submit
- bug reports.</a>
-<li>The <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user</a> mailing list.
-<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">Project page
- for archivemail</a> on Sourceforge.
-</ul>
+<h2>License</h2>
+<p>
+This software is licensed under the terms of the
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>, either
+version 2 of the license, or any later version.
<h2>Credits</h2>
<p>
-<strong>archivemail</strong> was written by Paul Rodger
-&lt;<span class="mail">paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em>
-com</span>&gt;<br>
-and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml &lt;<span class="mail">poeml
-<em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de</span>&gt;, Nikolaus Schulz
-&lt;<span class="mail">microschulz <em>at</em> web <em>dot</em>
-de</span>&gt; and Brandon Knitter.
+<span class="command">archivemail</span> was written by Paul Rodger
+<code>&lt;paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em>
+ com&gt;</code>
+and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <code>&lt;poeml
+ <em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de&gt;</code>, Nikolaus Schulz <code><a href=
+"mailto:microschulz@web.de">&lt;microschulz@web.de&gt;</a></code>
+and Brandon Knitter.
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