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.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "9 August 2010" "archivemail 0\&.8\&.2" "archivemail user manual"
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.SH "NAME"
archivemail \- archive and compress your old email
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBarchivemail\fR\ 'u
\fBarchivemail\fR [\fBoptions\fR] {\fIMAILBOX\fR...}
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
archivemail is a tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes\&. By default it will read the mailbox
\fIMAILBOX\fR, moving messages that are older that the specified number of days (180 by default) to a
\fBmbox\fR(5)\-format mailbox in the same directory that is compressed with
\fBgzip\fR(1)\&. It can also just delete old email rather than archive it\&.
.PP
By default,
\fBarchivemail\fR
derives the archive filename from the mailbox name by appending an
_archive
suffix to the mailbox name\&. For example, if you run
\fBarchivemail\fR
on a mailbox called
exsouthrock, the archive will be created with the filename
exsouthrock_archive\&.gz\&. This default behavior can be overridden with command line options, choosing a custom suffix, a prefix, or a completely custom name for the archive\&.
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
supports reading
IMAP,
Maildir,
MH
and
mbox\-format mailboxes, but always writes
mbox\-format archives\&.
.PP
Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless explicitly requested with the
\fB\-\-include\-flagged\fR
option\&. Also,
\fBarchivemail\fR
can be configured not to archive unread mail, or to only archive messages larger than a specified size\&.
.PP
To archive an
IMAP\-format mailbox, use the format
\fIimap://username:password@server/mailbox \fR
to specify the mailbox\&.
archivemail
will expand wildcards in
IMAP
mailbox names according to
RFC
3501, which says:
\(lq The character "*" is a wildcard, and matches zero or more characters at this position\&. The character "%" is similar to "*", but it does not match a hierarchy delimiter\&.\(rq
You can omit the password from the
URL; use the
\fB\-\-pwfile\fR
option to make
\fBarchivemail\fR
read the password from a file, or alternatively just enter it upon request\&. If the
\fB\-\-pwfile\fR
option is set,
\fBarchivemail\fR
does not look for a password in the
URL, and the colon is not considered a delimiter\&. Substitute \*(Aq\fBimap\fR\*(Aq with \*(Aq\fBimaps\fR\*(Aq, and
\fBarchivemail\fR
will establish a secure
SSL
connection\&. See below for more
IMAP
peculiarities\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-d \fR\fB\fINUM\fR\fR\fB, \-\-days=\fR\fB\fINUM\fR\fR
.RS 4
Archive messages older than
\fINUM\fR
days\&. The default is 180\&. This option is incompatible with the
\fB\-\-date\fR
option below\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-D \fR\fB\fIDATE\fR\fR\fB, \-\-date=\fR\fB\fIDATE\fR\fR
.RS 4
Archive messages older than
\fIDATE\fR\&.
\fIDATE\fR
can be a date string in ISO format (eg \*(Aq2002\-04\-23\*(Aq), Internet format (eg \*(Aq23 Apr 2002\*(Aq) or Internet format with full month names (eg \*(Aq23 April 2002\*(Aq)\&. Two\-digit years are not supported\&. This option is incompatible with the
\fB\-\-days\fR
option above\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-o \fR\fB\fIPATH\fR\fR\fB, \-\-output\-dir=\fR\fB\fIPATH\fR\fR
.RS 4
Use the directory name
\fIPATH\fR
to store the mailbox archives\&. The default is the same directory as the mailbox to be read\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-P \fR\fB\fIFILE\fR\fR\fB, \-\-pwfile=\fR\fB\fIFILE\fR\fR
.RS 4
Read
IMAP
password from file
\fIFILE\fR
instead of from the command line\&. Note that this will probably not work if you are archiving folders from more than one IMAP account\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-F \fR\fB\fISTRING\fR\fR\fB, \-\-filter\-append=\fR\fB\fISTRING\fR\fR
.RS 4
Append
\fISTRING\fR
to the
IMAP
filter string\&. For
IMAP
wizards\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-p \fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR\fB, \-\-prefix=\fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR
.RS 4
Prefix
\fINAME\fR
to the archive name\&.
\fINAME\fR
is expanded by the
\fBpython\fR(1)
function
time\&.strftime(), which means that you can specify special directives in
\fINAME\fR
to make an archive named after the archive cut\-off date\&. See the discussion of the
\fB\-\-suffix\fR
option for a list of valid
strftime()
directives\&. The default is not to add a prefix\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-s \fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR\fB, \-\-suffix=\fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR
.RS 4
Use the suffix
\fINAME\fR
to create the filename used for archives\&. The default is
_archive, unless a prefix is specified\&.
.sp
Like a prefix, the suffix
\fINAME\fR
is expanded by the
\fBpython\fR(1)
function
time\&.strftime()
with the archive cut\-off date\&.
time\&.strftime()
understands the following directives:
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%a\fR
Locale\*(Aqs abbreviated weekday name\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%A\fR
Locale\*(Aqs full weekday name\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%b\fR
Locale\*(Aqs abbreviated month name\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%B\fR
Locale\*(Aqs full month name\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%c\fR
Locale\*(Aqs appropriate date and time representation\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%d\fR
Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%H\fR
Hour (24\-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%I\fR
Hour (12\-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%j\fR
Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%m\fR
Month as a decimal number [01,12]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%M\fR
Minute as a decimal number [00,59]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%p\fR
Locale\*(Aqs equivalent of either AM or PM\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%S\fR
Second as a decimal number [00,61]\&. (1)
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%U\fR
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\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%w\fR
Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%W\fR
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\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%x\fR
Locale\*(Aqs appropriate date representation\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%X\fR
Locale\*(Aqs appropriate time representation\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%y\fR
Year without century as a decimal number [00,99]\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%Y\fR
Year with century as a decimal number\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%Z\fR
Time zone name (or by no characters if no time zone exists)\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
\fB%%\fR
A literal "%" character\&.
.RE
.sp
.RE
.PP
\fB\-a \fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR\fB, \-\-archive\-name=\fR\fB\fINAME\fR\fR
.RS 4
Use
\fINAME\fR
as the archive name, ignoring the name of the mailbox that is archived\&. Like prefixes and suffixes,
\fINAME\fR
is expanded by
strftime()
with the archive cut\-off date\&. Because it hard\-codes the archive name, this option cannot be used when archiving multiple mailboxes\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-S \fR\fB\fINUM\fR\fR\fB, \-\-size=\fR\fB\fINUM\fR\fR
.RS 4
Only archive messages that are
\fINUM\fR
bytes or greater\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-n, \-\-dry\-run\fR
.RS 4
Don\*(Aqt 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\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-u, \-\-preserve\-unread\fR
.RS 4
Do not archive any messages that have not yet been read\&.
\fBarchivemail\fR
determines if a message in a
mbox\-format or
MH\-format mailbox has been read by looking at the
Status
header (if it exists)\&. If the status header is equal to \*(AqRO\*(Aq or \*(AqOR\*(Aq then
archivemail
assumes the message has been read\&.
\fBarchivemail\fR
determines if a
maildir
message has been read by looking at the filename\&. If the filename contains an \*(AqS\*(Aq after
:2,
then it assumes the message has been read\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-dont\-mangle\fR
.RS 4
Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From "\&. When archiving a message from a mailbox not in
mbox
format, by default
\fBarchivemail\fR
mangles such lines by prepending a \*(Aq>\*(Aq to them, since mail user agents might otherwise interpret these lines as message separators\&. Messages from
mbox
folders are never mangled\&. See
\fBmbox\fR(5)
for more information\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-delete\fR
.RS 4
Delete rather than archive old mail\&. Use this option with caution!
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-copy\fR
.RS 4
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
\fB\-\-delete\fR
option, and mainly useful for testing purposes\&. Note that multiple passes will create duplicates, since messages are blindly appended to an existing archive\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-all\fR
.RS 4
Archive all messages, without distinction\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-include\-flagged\fR
.RS 4
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\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-no\-compress\fR
.RS 4
Do not compress any archives\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-warn\-duplicate\fR
.RS 4
Warn about duplicate
Message\-IDs that appear in the input mailbox\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-v, \-\-verbose\fR
.RS 4
Reports lots of extra debugging information about what is going on\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-debug\-imap=\fR\fB\fINUM\fR\fR
.RS 4
Set
IMAP
debugging level\&. This makes
\fBarchivemail\fR
dump its conversation with the
IMAP
server and some internal
IMAP
processing to
stdout\&. Higher values for
\fINUM\fR
give more elaborate output\&. Set
\fINUM\fR
to 4 to see all exchanged
IMAP
commands\&. (Actually,
\fINUM\fR
is just passed literally to
imaplib\&.Debug\&.)
.RE
.PP
\fB\-q, \-\-quiet\fR
.RS 4
Turns on quiet mode\&. Do not print any statistics about how many messages were archived\&. This should be used if you are running
\fBarchivemail\fR
from cron\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-V, \-\-version\fR
.RS 4
Display the version of
\fBarchivemail\fR
and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR
.RS 4
Display brief summary information about how to run
\fBarchivemail\fR\&.
.RE
.SH "NOTES"
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
requires
\fBpython\fR(1)
version 2\&.3 or later\&. When reading an
mbox\-format mailbox,
\fBarchivemail\fR
will create a lockfile with the extension
\&.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
\fBlockf\fR(2)\&. The archive is locked in the same way when it is updated\&.
\fBarchivemail\fR
will also complain and abort if a 3rd\-party modifies the mailbox while it is being read\&.
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
will always attempt to preserve the last\-access and last\-modify times of the input mailbox\&. Archive mailboxes are always created with a mode of
0600\&. If
\fBarchivemail\fR
finds a pre\-existing archive mailbox it will append rather than overwrite that archive\&.
\fBarchivemail\fR
will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic links\&.
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
attempts to find the delivery date of a message by looking for valid dates in the following headers, in order of precedence:
Delivery\-date,
Received,
Resent\-Date
and
Date\&. If it cannot find any valid date in these headers, it will use the last\-modified file timestamp on
MH
and
Maildir
format mailboxes, or the date on the
From
line on
mbox\-format mailboxes\&.
.PP
When archiving mailboxes with leading dots in the name,
archivemail
will strip the dots off the archive name, so that the resulting archive file is not hidden\&. This is not done if the
\fB\-\-prefix\fR
or
\fB\-\-archive\-name\fR
option is used\&. Should there really be mailboxes distinguished only by leading dots in the name, they will thus be archived to the same archive file by default\&.
.PP
A conversion from other formats to
\fBmbox\fR(5)
will silently overwrite existing
Status
and
X\-Status
message headers\&.
.SS "IMAP"
.PP
When
\fBarchivemail\fR
processes an
IMAP
folder, all messages in that folder will have their
\eRecent
flag unset, and they will probably not show up as \*(Aqnew\*(Aq in your user agent later on\&. There is no way around this, it\*(Aqs just how
IMAP
works\&. This does not apply, however, if you run
\fBarchivemail\fR
with the options
\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR
or
\fB\-\-copy\fR\&.
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
relies on server\-side searches to determine the messages that should be archived\&. When matching message dates,
IMAP
servers refer to server internal message dates, and these may differ from both delivery time of a message and its
Date
header\&. Also, there exist broken servers which do not implement server side searches\&.
.sp
.it 1 an-trap
.nr an-no-space-flag 1
.nr an-break-flag 1
.br
.ps +1
\fBIMAP URLS\fR
.RS 4
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR\*(Aqs
IMAP
URL
parser was written with the
RFC
2882 (Internet Message Format) rules for the
local\-part
of email addresses in mind\&. So, rather than enforcing an
URL\-style encoding of non\-ascii
and reserved characters, it allows to double\-quote the username and password\&. If your username or password contains the delimiter characters \*(Aq@\*(Aq or \*(Aq:\*(Aq, just quote it like this:
\fIimap://"username@bogus\&.com":"password"@imap\&.bogus\&.com/mailbox \fR\&. 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\&.
.PP

\fBarchivemail\fR
tries to be smart when handling mailbox paths\&. In particular, it will automatically add an
IMAP
NAMESPACE
prefix to the mailbox path if necessary; and if you are archiving a subfolder, you can use the slash as a path separator instead of the
IMAP
server\*(Aqs internal representation\&.
.RE
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.PP
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:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail debian\-user\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
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:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-suffix \*(Aq_%B_%Y\*(Aq debian\-user\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
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:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-date\*(Aq1 Jan 2002\*(Aq cm\-melb\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
Exactly the same as the above example, using an ISO date format instead:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-date=2002\-01\-01 cm\-melb\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
To delete all messages in the mailbox
spam
that are older than 30 days:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-delete \-\-days=30 spam\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
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:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-preserve\-unread incoming\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
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:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-no\-compress received\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
To archive all mailboxes in the directory
$HOME/Mail
that are older than 90 days to compressed mailboxes in the
$HOME/Mail/Archive
directory:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-d90 \-o $HOME/Mail/Archive $HOME/Mail/*\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
To archive all mails older than 180 days from the given
IMAP
INBOX to a compressed mailbox INBOX_archive\&.gz in the
$HOME/Mail/Archive
directory, quoting the password and reading it from the environment variable
\fBPASSWORD\fR:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-o $HOME/Mail/Archive imaps://user:\*(Aq"\*(Aq$PASSWORD\*(Aq"\*(Aq@example\&.org/INBOX\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
Note the protected quotes\&.
.PP
To archive all mails older than 180 days in subfolders of "foo" on the given
IMAP
server to corresponding archives in the current working directory, reading the password from the file
~/imap\-pass\&.txt:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
bash$ \fBarchivemail \-\-pwfile=~/imap\-pass\&.txt imaps://user@example\&.org/foo/*\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.SH "TIPS"
.PP
Probably the best way to run
\fBarchivemail\fR
is from your
\fBcrontab\fR(5)
file, using the
\fB\-\-quiet\fR
option\&. Don\*(Aqt forget to try the
\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR
and perhaps the
\fB\-\-copy\fR
option for non\-destructive testing\&.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.sp
Normally the exit status is 0\&. Nonzero indicates an unexpected error\&.
.SH "BUGS"
.sp
If an IMAP mailbox path contains slashes, the archive filename will be derived from the basename of the mailbox\&. If the server\*(Aqs folder separator differs from the Unix slash and is used in the IMAP URL, however, the whole path will be considered the basename of the mailbox\&. E\&.g\&. the two URLs \fBimap://user@example\&.com/folder/subfolder\fR and \fBimap://user@example\&.com/folder\&.subfolder\fR will be archived in subfolder_archive\&.gz and folder\&.subfolder_archive\&.gz, respectively, although they might refer to the same IMAP mailbox\&.
.sp
\fBarchivemail\fR does not support reading MMDF or Babyl\-format mailboxes\&. In fact, it will probably think it is reading an mbox\-format mailbox and cause all sorts of problems\&.
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\fBarchivemail\fR is still too slow, but if you are running from \fBcrontab\fR(5) you won\*(Aqt care\&. Archiving maildir\-format mailboxes should be a lot quicker than mbox\-format mailboxes since it is less painful for the original mailbox to be reconstructed after selective message removal\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.RS 4
 \fBpython\fR(1), \fBgzip\fR(1), \fBmutt\fR(1), \fBprocmail\fR(1)
.RE
.SH "URL"
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The \fBarchivemail\fR home page is currently hosted at \m[blue]\fBsourceforge\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2
.SH "AUTHOR"
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This manual page was written by Paul Rodger <paul at paulrodger dot com>\&. Updated and supplemented by Nikolaus Schulz microschulz@web\&.de
.SH "NOTES"
.IP " 1." 4
sourceforge
.RS 4
\%http://archivemail.sourceforge.net
.RE