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archivemail is an archiver and compressor for old email messages. archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. archivemail can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate mbox format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email.Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate, compressed mailbox will mean:1. Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading your mail.2. You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed. (Mail usually compresses quite nicely.)3. You won't be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time. If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it, archivemail can do that too. Here are some key features of "archivemail":· Support for archiving IMAP, mbox, MH and maildir format mailboxes.· You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old -- with the default being 180 days.· Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you specify the --include-flagged option.· Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.· You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.· Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of your choice, with an extension of your choice.· Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.· Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the --date option.· Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.Requirements:· archivemail requires python version 2.0 or later, with the optional 'zlib' module, although the zlib module comes with most python installations. If you are compiling your own version of python < version 2.2, make sure you uncomment the 'zlib' moduile in Modules/Setup in the python source directory. · You can check to see if your version of python has the 'zlib' module by trying this: · flare:~$ python· Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 26 2002, 11:22:45)· on linux2· Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. · If you get an ImportError, then the zlib python module has not been installed. Try upgrading your python distribution. · Python is available from http://www.python.org/ · If you want to run the bundled test script, you will need python version 2.1 or later, because we use the PyUnit 'unittest' module. Sorry.InstallationIf you want to test archivemail: cp archivemail archivemail.py python test_archivemail.py (NOTE: This could take over 90 seconds on slower systems)To install archivemail, run: python setup.py installWhat's New in This Release:· IMAP: fixed crash by working around python bug #1277098, which is still pending in python
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