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Perhaps they are taking +up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate, +compressed mailbox will mean: +<ol> +<li>Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading + your mail. +<li>You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed. + (Mail usually compresses quite nicely.) +<li>You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time. +</ol> +<p> + +If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it, +<strong>archivemail</strong> can do that too. +<p> + + +<h2>Features</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 + 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 + 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. +</ul> +<p> + +<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 +</ul> +<p> + + +<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> +<p> + +<h2>License</h2> +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. +<p> + +<h2>Requirements</h2> +<strong>archivemail</strong> requires python version 2.0 or later, with the +optional <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-zlib.html">zlib +module</a>, although the zlib module comes with most python installations. If +you are compiling your own version of python less than version 2.2, make sure +you uncomment the 'zlib' moduile in Modules/Setup in the python source +directory. +<p> + +You can check to see if your version of python has the 'zlib' module by trying +this: +<p> + +<pre> + flare:~$ python + Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 26 2002, 11:22:45) + [GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2 + Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. + >>> import zlib + >>> +</pre> + +If you get an ImportError, then the zlib python module has not been installed. +Try upgrading your python distribution. +<p> + +Python is available from +<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a> +<p> + +If you want to run the bundled test script, you will need python version 2.1 +or later, because we use the +<a href="http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/">PyUnit unittest module</a>. Sorry. +<p> + +<h2>Download</h2> +<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/cvs/?group_id=49630">CVS</a>. There is also a +<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/archivemail.html">debian +package</a>. +<p> + +<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> +<p> + +<h2>Credits</h2> +<strong>archivemail</strong> was written by Paul Rodger +<<u>paul</u> <em>at</em> <u>paulrodger</u> <em>dot</em> <u>com</u>> +<p> + +<hr> +<p> +<center> +<!-- sourceforge logo start --> +<a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=49630&type=3" width="125" height="37" border="0" alt="SourceForge.net Logo"></a> +<!-- sourceforge logo end --> +</center> + +</body> +</html> |