Heh, thats kind of funny... I wrote one in Perl (my first real perl
script) a few weeks ago to backup accounting info in a similar method
(every day, keeping the most recent 30 days, and making monthly
archives) I wrote it in a fashion that (hopefully) is easy to
customize. It also emails the admin on failure (it does a diff on
everything it copies).
If for any reason anyone wants it, they are more than welcome to it.
--mat
Shannon Roddy wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>A while back I was looking for something to take a bunch of mbox
>format mail files and archive them in /year/month subdirectories.
>Well... I never found anything I really liked, so Sunday I took an
>hour and wrote one. What took the longest was finding all the info
>about the various python methods, etc. For someone who does not do
>any python programming on a regular basis, I swear python makes things
>too easy.... This has become my language of choice when I need a
>homebrew solution. I took a couple of ideas from a script that I
>found on the web, but the script is nearly from scratch.
>
>Any critiques are welcome, but this was just a quick and dirty script.
> The only problem I found was that various MTAs have poor date fomats,
>so some mail ends up in a subdirectory of 02 instead of 2002, etc.
>Maybe I will address that later... My next "todo" is to write a
>script that will go through my archives and delete duplicate
>messages...
>
>The script is run by simply typing "script_name source_mbox_file
>dest_directory". Also, if the message is lacking a date, it goes in
>dest_directory/0/0. I ran this on ~1GB of old imap folders and it
>took < 15 minutes on a Sun Blade 2000.
>
>Later,
>Shannon
>
>#!/usr/bin/env python
>
>import mailbox, rfc822
>import sys, os, string, re, os.path
>
>LF = '\x0a'
>
>def main():
> mailboxname_in = sys.argv[1]
> mailboxdir_out = sys.argv[2]
> process_mailbox (mailboxname_in, mailboxdir_out)
>
>def process_mailbox (mailboxname_in, mailboxdir_out):
> mb = mailbox.UnixMailbox (file(mailboxname_in,'r'))
> msg = mb.next()
> while msg is not None:
> if msg.getdate('Date') is not None:
> msg_date = msg.getdate('Date')
> elif msg.getdate('Sent') is not None:
> msg_date = msg.getdate('Sent')
> else:
> msg_date = (0 , 0)
> msg_dir = mailboxdir_out + '/' + str(msg_date[0]) + '/' +
>str(msg_date[1]) + '/'
> document = msg.fp.read()
> write_message (msg, document, msg_dir)
> msg = mb.next()
>
>
>
>def write_message (msg, document, msg_dir):
> fname = msg_dir + 'mail.mbox'
> if os.path.exists(msg_dir) is not True:
> os.makedirs(msg_dir)
> fout = file(fname, 'a')
> fout.write(msg.unixfrom)
> for i in msg.headers:
> fout.write (i)
> fout.write(LF)
> fout.write(document)
> fout.close()
>
>if __name__ == '__main__':
> main()
>
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