archivemail
Description
archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old
email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified number of
days to a separate mbox
format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email.
Why should I use it?
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:
- Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading
your mail.
- You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed.
(Mail usually compresses quite nicely.)
- You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it,
archivemail can do that too.
Current Release
The current release is version 0.7.0,
and is ready for download. Older versions are available here.
Features
- Support for archiving
IMAP,
mbox,
MH and
maildir format
mailboxes.
- You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old --
with the default being 180 days.
- Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you
specify the --include-flagged option.
- Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
- You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
- Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of
your choice, with an extension of your choice.
- Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
- Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the
--date option.
- Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.
- IMAPS/SSL support.
- Arbitrary IMAP filter strings can added on the commandline.
Documentation
Articles
License
This software is licensed under the
GNU GPL.
See the file COPYING for more information.
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/
If you want to run the bundled test script, you will need python version 2.1
or later, because we use the
PyUnit unittest module. Sorry.
Download
archivemail can be downloaded from the
archivemail
download area on Sourceforge or via
Subversion.
There should soon be binary RPM packages at
the OpenSUSE build
service for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5. There is also a
debian
package.
Support
Credits
archivemail was written by Paul Rodger
<paul at paulrodger dot com>
and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml, Nikolaus Schulz and Brandon Knitter.
