Re: Archivemail

Keith Bainbridge: > > To answer the question about MH, yes. It is the default for Sylpheed & > Claws. Thanks! J. -- I eat meat and am concerned about bugs which are resistant to antibiotics. [Agree] [Disagree] sign

Re: Archivemail

Hallo, * Mark Fletcher [Fri, Jan 22 2021, 11:22:19PM]: > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been > dropped. Anyone know why? > > bugs.debian.org

Re: Archivemail

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:23:01 +0200 Anssi Saari wrote: > Keith Bainbridge writes: > > > On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Is anybody still using MH mailboxes? > > > > I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if > > I lose a file, I lose only 1 email not thousa

Re: Archivemail

On Lu, 25 ian 21, 08:23:01, Anssi Saari wrote: > Keith Bainbridge writes: > > > On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Is anybody still using MH mailboxes? > > > > I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if I > > lose a file, I lose only 1 email not thousands. >

Re: Archivemail

Keith Bainbridge writes: > On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Is anybody still using MH mailboxes? > > I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if I > lose a file, I lose only 1 email not thousands. MH is a mail format where each mail is stored in separate file,

Re: Archivemail

* 2021-01-24 16:40:45-0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Take a look at the mboxgrep package. Maybe you should explain how it helps the original poster and his problem. See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/01/msg00876.html -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPG

Re: Archivemail

> Also, progressive back-ups get very large very quickly using everything > in one file. FWIW tools like `bup` can do incremental backups of "mailbox" files efficiently. Stefan

Re: Archivemail

On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote: Is anybody still using MH mailboxes? I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if I lose a file, I lose only 1 email not thousands. Also, progressive back-ups get very large very quickly using everything in one file. I also hav

Re: Archivemail

Mark Fletcher: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> The main problem is that one has to replace a few modules/functions, >> mostly the long-obsolete rfc822. I think I can get away with throwing >> away the get_filename function completely, which was a little >> p

Re: Archivemail

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:24:39 +0200 Teemu Likonen wrote: > > Erm, what am I missing, couldn't you do that with a crontab line > > something like.. > > > > 0 1* * * find /var/mail/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete > > File /var/mail/$USER is an mbox file which contains several email > messa

Re: Archivemail

* 2021-01-24 08:53:22+, t...@yxit.co.uk wrote: > On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 00:31 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> I'm probably going to just write a python3 script of my own to handle my >> use-case, which is just to sift through /var/mail/ to delete mails >> older than a month. > > Erm, what am I

Re: Archivemail

On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 00:31 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I'm probably going to just write a python3 script of my own to handle my > use-case, which is just to sift through /var/mail/ to delete mails > older than a month. Erm, what am I missing, couldn't you do that with a crontab line something

Re: Archivemail

Mark Fletcher: > > OK deciphering the above for anyone who might follow after me: > archivemail is dependent on Python2 which, it appears, is getting > removed from bullseye (although as of right now it's not gone yet, it's > installed on my system and I didn't ask for it, so something is clear

Re: Archivemail

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Thank you for pointing out that archivemail will be gone soon. Since I > am using it as well, I took a quick look at it ("how hard can it be??") > and tried a quick conversion to Python3: > https://github.com/solexx/archivemail > >

Re: Archivemail

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:33:13PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > > is in neither sid nor Bullseye which pr

Re: Archivemail

On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been > dropped. Anyone know why? > > bugs.d

Fwd: Re: archivemail default setup

To the list as well... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: archivemail default setup Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:00:00 + From: Stephan Beck Reply-To: sb...@secure.mailbox.org To: Mark Fletcher Hi Mark, Mark Fletcher: > Hello again > > A little while back I

Re: archivemail default setup

Mark Fletcher [2016-10-22 14:45:19+09] wrote: > The command I am running is: > > archivemail --output-dir=/home/mark/Mail/ -d 31 --delete /var/mail/mark > > My mailbox is in /var/mail/mark. I didn't choose to put it there, that > is where it went when the system was installed. I am not sure if th

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

Hi Sven, I have been using archivemail since March 2003, always with compression. My configuration generates a new gzipped archive for every month for every IMAP folder. To give you some peace of mind, I just did a simple decompression test of all archives [~5000 right now] (gunzip $file > /de

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

steve wrote: > I understand, but since I have more or less 2/3 of the *.gz that are ok, > I thought archivemail was the responsible. But after gunzipping some > other files, it seems that the problem only arises on ISO-8850 text file, > not on UTF-8. But not tech savvy enough to know why. > The

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

Hi Thomas, Thanks for your answer! Le 11-05-2016, à 12:22:18 +0200, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : steve wrote: gzip: mail_archive.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error It seems that gunzip You're right, with gunzip < file.gz > file, I can recuperate almost the whole file: ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

Hi, i have to correct a copy+paste error in my last mail. The mangling step should have been dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=xx.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc rather than dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=/u/x.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

Hi, steve wrote: > gzip: mail_archive.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error It seems that gunzip xx.gz which yields more than 1000 bytes. Then i damaged it: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=/u/x.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc and tried to uncompress gunzip xx.gz which yields gzip: xx.gz:

Re: Archivemail syntaxwarning

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:19, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > Hi guys, > > On my unstable box, when I run: > > /usr/bin/archivemail -d1 -q -u --preserve-unread -o $HOME/Mailarchive > $HOME/Maildir/.mailinglist* > > I get: > > /usr/bin/archivemail:765: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None > (None, last_d

Re: NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:52:19AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > > > > I got it to work > > > > $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup > > > > Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I

NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I got it to work > > $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup > Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I didn't realize that it is created backup files as stated in the original post

SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:53:18AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > I am unable to get the "--delete" option of archivemail to work. > > $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup > archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to >'inbox.backup_archive'