On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with > them pretty recently.
Hi Michael:
Cool.
> I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of
> all of my folders in ~/mail. The way I have my mail set up is one
> folder per box, for example my folders are:
>
> ~/mail/inbox
> ~/mail/debian-user
> ~/mail/sent
>
> I'd like the Cron job to archive these on a weekly basis, but not
> exactly on a weekly basis.
Instead of reinventing the wheel; Why not use something like
archivemail?
# aptitude show archivemail
Package: archivemail
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.7.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uncompressed Size: 139k
Depends: python
Description:
archive and compress your old email
Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or
mbox format, or via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed
mbox-format mailbox file. It is well suited to be run from cron
for
automatic archiving of your old mail.
It runs via cron as well, and the included readmes will help you set
the syntax up for whatever time period "floats yer boat".
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Regards
Stephen A.
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