Re: Archiver Cron Jobs
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. -- Regards Stephen A. Encrypted/Signed e-mail accepted (GPG or PGP) -- Key ID: 978BA045 + Having nothing, nothing can he lose. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI + signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Archiver Cron Jobs
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:34:04AM -0500, Stephen wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote: 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. Wow, nice find! I'll definitely toy around with this sometime today. Oh, and it's in maildir format, since that's the only way I could get Mutt to do what I wanted (Mbox didn't seem to work right the way I was trying to set it up, although I don't mind using maildir instead of mbox). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archiver Cron Jobs
I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with them pretty recently. 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. The part that is tough for me to figure out is...I want the cron job to only archive when the file is a week old. So I'd need it to do a daily check of my folders and their contents (And the dates they were created), and if they're older than seven days old move them into ~/mail/archives/folder (Archive would be a mirror image of the directories in ~/mail). I imagine something like this can be done in bash or similar, but I have no experience doing bash. Thanks for your time, Michael Pobega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archiver Cron Jobs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:13, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with them pretty recently. 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 These are mbox files? It would help see the complete directory structure. I'd like the Cron job to archive these on a weekly basis, but not exactly on a weekly basis. The part that is tough for me to figure out is...I want the cron job to only archive when the file is a week old. So I'd need it to do a daily check of my folders and their contents (And the dates they were created), and if they're older than seven days old move them into ~/mail/archives/folder (Archive would be a mirror image of the directories in ~/mail). If these are mbox files, there will be a problem if you try to Receive new emails (or compact folders or move mails from folder to folder, etc) while the job happens to be running. I imagine something like this can be done in bash or similar, but I have no experience doing bash. Yes, but... there's always a spanner in the gears. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF48BpS9HxQb37XmcRAlDUAJ9SyoPnO1YWn6aZy83wZHxUdtHmqwCglhCa eVWvzt9EIToQmBD+kKwFSe8= =jz4t -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
