http://base-art.net/Articles/3/ <p>I'm using mutt to read my mail through IMAP4_SSL... But currently it lacks of a cache system, so dealing with big folders (~2000) is quite hard for it.</p> <p>That's why I hacked an archive utility script to better fit with my needs. The original one is <a class="reference" href="http://gray.mine.nu/maildirarchive/mdirarchive-0.1.py">here</a>. The purpose is to move old mails on subtrees of the folder we want to archive, sorted by month.</p> <p>I mainly added an option relating mail dates comparisons. So now there are two possibilities :</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>believe IMAP dates (appearing as timestamps in beginning of mail filenames) (default behavior)</li> <li>believe <cite>Date:</cite> Mail header (-m option)</li> </ul> <p>Use-case :)</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ ./mdirarchive.py -m respyre $ tree ~/Maildir/.respyre* -L 1 /home/phil/Maildir/.respyre |-- courierimapacl |-- courierimapkeywords |-- courierimapuiddb |-- cur |-- new `-- tmp /home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-06 |-- cur |-- new `-- tmp /home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-09 |-- cur |-- new `-- tmp /home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-10 |-- cur |-- new `-- tmp </pre> <p>There is now a subfolder per month. Check script online help for more options.</p> <p><a class="reference" href="/static/mdirarchive.py">Download</a></p> en The contents of this blog are available for non-commercial use only. Alinea http://pythonfr.org/alinea/ http://base-art.net/Comments/2/ http://base-art.net/Comments/2/ phil 2004-04-18T01:18:19Z http://base-art.net/Comments/1/ http://base-art.net/Comments/1/ Jkx 2004-04-18T00:44:39Z