On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:43:27PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:38, Gavin Carr wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:33:55PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:08, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > > No the last step is I want to be able to run a program/script against a > > > > mbox file and seperate into two files (or append to other files) emails > > > > that are older than a certain date and younger than a certain date. > > > > > > > > so before I venture off in to formail,perl and write my own does any > > > > body know of a package module that does this ? > > > > > > Yep! Called, funnily enough, archivemail. > > > > > > Nice little python jobbie that'll rotate anything older than a certain > > > date out of a given mail box and in to a compressed mbox. > > > > Or you could consider converting from mbox format to Maildir format > > (which mutt and procmail both handle fine), which stores each message > > as a separate file instead of your monster mbox file. Rolling your own > > stuff for this sort of archiving then becomes almost trivial. > > Oh, archivemail is input format agnostic. It'll read mbox, Maildir and > MH files. I don't think it gives you much of a choice of output > formats, though. I use archivemail on seperate servers with both mbox > and Maildir. > > (I also prefer Maildir, but I think it takes a better reason than just > "better archiving tools" to convince anybody to go through the pain of > converting an established mail server)
Is there a how to on this ? might be worth doing, always like being able to use my folder to store mail items and other folders A ps I will do a google later > > -- > Pete > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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