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<h1>archivemail</h1>
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<h2>Description</h2>
<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.
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<h2>Why should I use it?</h2>
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
up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate,
compressed mailbox will mean:
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<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.
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If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
<strong>archivemail</strong> can do that too.
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<h2>Current Release</h2>
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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>.
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<h2>Features</h2>
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<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.
<li>IMAPS/SSL support.
<li>Arbitrary IMAP filter strings can added on the commandline.
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<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
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<h2>Articles</h2>
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<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>.
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<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.
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<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.)
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Python is available from
<a href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a>
<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/svn/?group_id=49630">Subversion</a>.
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There should soon be binary RPM packages at
<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/poeml/">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>.
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<h2>Support</h2>
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<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.
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<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>>
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and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <<u>poeml</u> <em>at</em>
<u>suse</u> <em>dot</em> <u>de</u>>, Nikolaus Schulz <<u>microschulz</u>
<em>at</em> <u>web</u> <em>dot</em> <u>de</u>> and Brandon Knitter.
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