-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I sent this earlier from another account. The list moderators can simply delete my previous attempt:
I have two situations that I suspect will have a similar solution. The first, is pruning ones email folders based on a date range. There are a number of users, myself included, that have a large mail box, due to having archived a lot of email since 1999. Even though I have physical access to the box, and mail is stored in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/<1st letter>/user/<username>, I would like a script that can be run remotely, over IMAPS, that can archive messages older than an arbitrary date. In a perfect world the output would be human readable and machine parsable. The second situation will archive an entire mailbox, folders and all, for offline storage. Easy enough with cyrus (tar -cjvf), but say I do not have local access, or the mailbox resides in Exchange (yes a lot of my clients use Exchange). Fetchmail looks like it can get email for me, and I am looking at building a shell script to do the logic (when one is a hammer, they tend to see the world as a nail... hence shell script). But before I sink any time into this, I thought I would check to see if anyone knew of a project that already does this (there are a bunch commercial email archiving utils). Traversing multiple folders seems to be the sticking point (I found a great little java app that even exports to xml, but it cannot recurse through an imap folder structure, that and no support for imaps). It handles attachments nicely and badly, all at the same time. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEe7lswRXgH3rKGfMRAkdYAJ955qfrbDCHHxeK5Oj7j3m7rVPKHgCdFVGr ANwVoW2vlyThMur7iFN5pe0= =kII5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
