Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm looking for opinions to archive old mail, and yet leaving it in a > readable way. I have used mhonarc only so far, but it seems to me that > there could be a better way, even by just gzipping mbox and creating a > script to pipe it thorugh mutt to read it when needed. Doing apt-cache > search I could find a bunch of options, so I am asking for user's > experiences in this
I save all of my mailboxes at the end of the month. I wrote a python script that gzips, renames adding the month & year to the MB name, and moves them to my OLD-MAIL dir. It then recreates the empty mailbox. This is done by a cron job just after midnight of the 1st of the new month. I save them in a large partition dedicated to backups. As mutt reads gzipped mailboxes, I have them available whenever I need them. I wasn't aware of any package to do it at the time (2-3 years ago) that I wrote the script. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
