fetchmail - [fork] set imap idle timeout to 600s, some servers don't follow rfc recommendations

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*	Move shipper to dist-tools directory	Rob Funk	2004-06-18	1	-0/+752

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=us-ascii"> <title>archivemail – a tool for archiving and compressing old email</title> <link title="archivemail style" rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> /*<![CDATA[*/ .command {font-weight: bold;} .example { /*background-color: #e0e0e0;*/ padding: 0 2em; } #status { float: right; width: 10em margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 1.3em; padding: 3ex; border: 1px solid #777777; line-height: 160%; } /*span.mail {text-decoration: underline;}*/ /*]]>*/ </style> </head> <body> <h1>archivemail</h1> <hr> <div id="status"> <strong>Latest version: 0.7.2</strong><br> Released on 2007-11-09 </div> <h2>What is it?</h2> <p> <span class="command">archivemail</span> is a tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. It moves messages older than the specified number of days to a separate <a title="mbox(5) man page" href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox format</a> mailbox that is compressed with <span class="command">gzip</span>. It can also just delete old email rather than archive it. <h2>What can it do for me?</h2> <p> 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: <ol> <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. </ol> <p> You can also use <span class="command">archivemail</span> as a simple backup tool. <h2>Features overview</h2> <ul> <li>Supports archiving <a title="about IMAP" href="http://www.imap.org/">IMAP</a>, <a title="mbox(5) man page" href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html">mbox</a>, <a title="MH FAQ" href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/">MH</a> and <a title="maildir(5) man page" href="http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html">Maildir</a> format mailboxes. <li>Old mail can be either archived or just deleted. <li>The age in days that is considered old is configurable – it defaults to 180 days. You can also set an absolute limit date. <li>Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless explicitely requested.  <li>Can be configured to preserve unread mail. <li>Can be configured to only archive messages over a given byte size. <li>Stores the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of your choice, with an extension of your choice. <li>Easy read-only testing, not touching your valuable data. <li>Supports IMAPS/SSL. <li>When archiving IMAP mailboxes, the message selection can be refined by extending the underlying IMAP <code>SEARCH</code> command with arbitrary search keys (you will have to cope with the raw IMAP protocol, though). </ul> <h2>Documentation</h2> <p> The <a href="manpage.html">archivemail manpage</a> is the primary documentation for <span class="command">archivemail</span>. To see what has changed in the latest version, check the <a href="RELNOTES">release notes</a>. If you want to have a closer look at the current development status, here's the <a title="changelog in git HEAD" href= "http://archivemail.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=archivemail/archivemail;a=blob;f=CHANGELOG;hb=HEAD"> CHANGELOG</a> and the <a title="TODO list in git HEAD" href= "http://archivemail.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=archivemail/archivemail;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=HEAD"> TODO list</a>, fresh from the repository. <h2>Where can I get it?</h2> <p> You can grab the latest version of <span class="command">archivemail</span> directly from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49630">archivemail download area</a> at Sourceforge. There will hopefully be up-to-date binary RPM packages at the <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/mail/">OpenSUSE build service</a> for SUSE Linux and Fedora Core 5 soon. Also, many Linux distributions provide packages; e.g. there is a <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/archivemail">Debian package</a>. <p> <span class="command">archivemail</span> is written in Python, and hacking it is easy and fun; you can check out the source from the git repository with the following command: <div class="example"> <kbd>git clone git://archivemail.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/archivemail/archivemail</kbd> </div> <p> See also the short <a href="http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=49630"> introduction to git access</a> at sourceforge.  <h2>Getting involved</h2> <ul> <li>Visit the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">archivemail tracker</a> to browse and/or submit bug reports and feature requests. <li>You can subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/archivemail-user">archivemail-user mailing list</a>. This is a low traffic, subscribers-only list. <li>Check out the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/archivemail/">project page for archivemail</a> at Sourceforge for a general overview. </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p> <span class="command">archivemail</span> requires Python 2.3 or newer. It also uses some optional python modules, but these should be pretty much standard; if you get an ImportError nonetheless, please <a title="jump to the archivemail tracker" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49630">report it</a>, thanks. <h2>License</h2> <p> This software is licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU GPL</a>, either version 2 of the license, or any later version. <h2>Credits</h2> <p> <span class="command">archivemail</span> was written by Paul Rodger <code><paul <em>at</em> paulrodger <em>dot</em> com></code> and is currently maintained by Peter Poeml <code><poeml <em>at</em> suse <em>dot</em> de></code>, Nikolaus Schulz <code><a href= "mailto:microschulz@web.de"><microschulz@web.de></a></code> and Brandon Knitter. <hr> <p>  <a href="http://sourceforge.net">  <img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=49630&type=2" width="125" height="37" alt="SourceForge.net Logo">  </a>  </body> </html>