"> "> "> "> "> "> "> "> ]> 24 October 2007 archivemail 1 SP archivemail archive and compress your old email options By default it will read the mailbox To archive an imap://username:password@server/mailbox to specify the mailbox. You can omit the password from the --pwfile option to make --pwfile option is set, Warning: this automatic seteuid feature is insecure and deprecated. It will be removed from later versions of -d Archive messages older than -D Archive messages older than -o Use the directory name -P Read -F Append -s Use the suffix _archive. For example, if you run exsouthrock, the archive will be created with the filename exsouthrock_archive.gz. %a Locale's abbreviated weekday name. %A Locale's full weekday name. %b Locale's abbreviated month name. %B Locale's full month name. %c Locale's appropriate date and time representation. %d Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31]. %H Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23]. %I Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12]. %j Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366]. %m Month as a decimal number [01,12]. %M Minute as a decimal number [00,59]. %p Locale's equivalent of either AM or PM. %S Second as a decimal number [00,61]. (1) %U Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. %w Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6]. %W Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. %x Locale's appropriate date representation. %X Locale's appropriate time representation. %y Year without century as a decimal number [00,99]. %Y Year with century as a decimal number. %Z Time zone name (or by no characters if no time zone exists). %% A literal "%" character. -S Only archive messages that are -n, --dry-run Don't write to any files -- just show what would have been done. This is useful for testing to see how many messages would have been archived. -u, --preserve-unread Do not archive any messages that have not yet been read. :2, then it assumes the message has been read. --dont-mangle Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From ". When archiving a message from a mailbox not in ' to them, since mail user agents might otherwise interpret these lines as message separators. Messages from --delete Delete rather than archive old mail. Use this option with caution! --copy Copy rather than archive old mail. Creates an archive, but the archived messages are not deleted from the originating mailbox, which is left unchanged. This is a complement to the --include-flagged Normally messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted. If you specify this option, these messages can be archived or deleted just like any other message. --no-compress Do not compress any archives using &gzip;. --warn-duplicate Warn about duplicate -v, --verbose Reports lots of extra debugging information about what is going on. -q, --quiet Turns on quiet mode. Do not print any statistics about how many messages were archived. This should be used if you are running -V, --version Display the version of -h, --help Display brief summary information about how to run .lock so that procmail will not deliver to the mailbox while it is being processed. It will also create an advisory lock on the mailbox using &flock;. A conversion from other formats to &mbox; will silently overwrite existing When RFC 2882 (Internet Message Format) rules for the local-part of email addresses in mind. So, rather than enforcing an imap://"username@bogus.com":"password"@imap.bogus.com/mailbox . You can use a backslash to escape double-quotes that are part of a quoted username or password. Note that quoting only a substring will not work, and be aware that your shell will probably remove unprotected quotes or backslashes. To archive all messages in the mailbox debian-user that are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called debian-user_archive.gz in the current directory: bash$ archivemail debian-user To archive all messages in the mailbox debian-user that are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called debian-user_October_2001.gz (where the current month and year is April, 2002) in the current directory: bash$ archivemail --suffix '_%B_%Y' debian-user To archive all messages in the mailbox cm-melb that are older than the first of January 2002 to a compressed mailbox called cm-melb_archive.gz in the current directory: bash$ archivemail --date'1 Jan 2002' cm-melb Exactly the same as the above example, using an ISO date format instead: bash$ archivemail --date=2002-01-01 cm-melb To delete all messages in the mailbox spam that are older than 30 days: bash$ archivemail --delete --days=30 spam To archive all read messages in the mailbox incoming that are older than 180 days to a compressed mailbox called incoming_archive.gz in the current directory: bash$ archivemail --preserve-unread incoming To archive all messages in the mailbox received that are older than 180 days to an uncompressed mailbox called received_archive in the current directory: bash$ archivemail --no-compress received To archive all mailboxes in the directory $HOME/Mail that are older than 90 days to compressed mailboxes in the $HOME/Mail/Archive directory: bash$ archivemail -d90 -o $HOME/Mail/Archive $HOME/Mail/* To archive all mails older than 180 days from the given $HOME/Mail/Archive directory, quoting the password and reading it from the environment variable PASSWORD: bash$ archivemail -o $HOME/Mail/Archive imaps://user:'"'$PASSWORD'"'@example.org/INBOX Note the protected quotes. Probably the best way to run --quiet option. Don't forget to try the --dry-run option for non-destructive testing. Normally the exit status is 0. Nonzero indicates an unexpected error. There is no support yet for reading &python;, &gzip;, &mutt;, &procmail; The sourceforge This manual page was written by Paul Rodger <paul at paulrodger dot com>. Updated and supplemented by Nikolaus Schulz microschulz@web.de