From ba5426db3f92f08c2b86564c076a9f99f86f4efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Rodger Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:36:32 +0000 Subject: Added a lot more documentation, fixed up usage messages and expanded a lot on the man page. --- CHANGELOG | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'CHANGELOG') diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index cfbcb4b..a3924d7 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Version 0.3.1 - 13 April 2002 + * Added a lot more information to the manpage, including examples and + notes. + * Fixed up the README file and archivemail usage message. + * Added an example archivemail shell script that I run from crontab. + Version 0.3.1 - 12 April 2002 * Stopped calling 'gzip' externally and started using the gzip library so that we can append to a copy of the gzip archive directly. -- cgit v1.2.3 'master' selected='selected'>master mirror of unmaintained archivemail with some fixesgit
aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README
blob: 6389006f3316510733ffb1df12d14eae631a871e (plain) 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65

-----------------------------------------------------------
archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox
-----------------------------------------------------------

OVERVIEW:

archivemail is a tool written in python(1) for archiving and compressing old
email in mailboxes. 

It can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate
'archive' mbox-format mailbox that is compressed with 'gzip'.

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. You can also archive messages
by an absolute date or only archive unread messages.


REQUIREMENTS:

archivemail 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.)

Python is available from http://www.python.org/


INSTALLATION:

If you want to test archivemail:
    cp archivemail archivemail.py
    python test_archivemail.py
    (NOTE: This could take over 90 seconds on slower systems)

To install archivemail, run:
    python setup.py install


USE:

For more detailed information and examples, look at the archivemail man page.

The best way to run archivemail is from cron, giving the '-q' option to
archivemail to make it quiet, only printing messages if something went wrong.
Check out the 'examples' directory for an example shell script to be run from
cron.

The archivemail website is at: http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/

If you have any feedback or bug reports about archivemail, you are very
welcome to email the maintainers; as of November 2006, these are:

Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>


-- Paul Rodger <paul at paulrodger dot com>, archivemail author
   Updated by: Nikolaus Schulz, maintainer