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]
