On Tue, 01 Jun 2004, Simon Barner wrote: > Oliver Fuchs wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. > > I have three questions/problems with the proper use: > > > > 1) I get the error message: > > /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None > > (None, last_dir) = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(message.fp.name)) > > I found the answer (Google) and a patch (it is a problem depending > > on Python 2.3). Is there another solution to this problem? > > Update your ports. It's fixed in archivemail-0.6.1_1. Apart from that, > it's only a syntax _warning_ (which of course can be quite annoying if you > rung archivemail from a cron job and receive an error report every > day), i.e. archivemail works despite of that message.
Good advice ... thanx for that ... > > > 2) Running > > archivemail -d90 -o $HOME/Mail/Archive $HOME/Mail/* > > [...] I still have no clue about that > > > 3) I want to run it in a cron job but to be honest I am not quiet sure where > > to put my archive script. > > [...] > > You're lucky: > > Several months ago, I did exactly the same thing. You should put the > cron job into your personal cron tab, i.e. as the user who's mail should > be processed by archivemail, run > > crontab -e Ah ... o.k > > (The other stuff you were looking at were system wide cron jobs). So to make it clear: If I want to run a cron job for a special user I use crontab and otherwise to run a system-wide cron-job that is not defined by FreeBSD itself I use /usr/local/etc/periodic? > > Okay, here comes my config: > > From my cron tab (the following line starts my mailexpire script every > day at 19:30) > > 30 19 * * * /home/simon/bin/mailexpire.sh > > ------------------------- > > #!/bin/sh > > # mail boxes to by processed by archive mail > MBOXES="freebsd-ports.box\ > freebsd-questions.box" > > cd /home/simon/Mail; > > # be sure to change the archivemail options to your personal needs > for box in $MBOXES; do > /usr/local/bin/archivemail -d 21 --delete -q $box > done Grĉat - thanx for the script > > ------------------------- > > All this works very well for me, although every other day, I get an email > from archivemail that one of my mail boxes changed during its operation. this is only happening on FreeBSD side - I never saw it on Linux before > This shouldn't normally happen, since both archivemail and fetchmail (which > I use to download my email) use several locking mechanisms to insure that > only one of them is operating on particular mail box. IIRC the > archivemail man page elaborates more on this. Yes, a little bit skimped > > > > Since archivemail is designed not to trash/loose your mail boxes under any > circumstances, this was never a problem for me. Anyway, I wouldn't use > archive mail for my personal mail boxes, but only for mailing lists, > where you still have the archives, just in case ... I never saw it from this angle but I am going to consider this > > Cheers, > Simon So thank you again for all your help and work Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
