On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:48:20AM +0000 or thereabouts, p wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:17:43PM -0400, Richard wrote: > > Looking for a simple method of doing this: > > Main reason for the changes, lost 255,000 email in a mbox format. > > corrupted. > >
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> however, i just wanted to add that i use the "mbox" format,
> but i just copy the "mbox" file into a new file at the end
> of each year--to archive it. then, i delete the contents
> of "mbox" and start with an empty one at the beginning of
> the year.
Or do it automatically with a nice little application called
'archivemail' available for Debian. I have mine setup to archive every
30 days, via a cronjob. I'm using mbox format, with mutt.
> for example, i have these "mbox" files as yearly archives:
>
> txt_2005_mbox.txt
> txt_2004_mbox.txt
> txt_2003_mbox.txt
Exactly and 'archivemail' one can append the month and gzip the data. In
conjunction with grepmail, one has a great search facility for these
archived e-mails.
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Regards
Stephen
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and
enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to
lend money.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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