chewmail

Langue: en

Version: 2006-08-15 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

chewmail - mail archiver

SYNOPSIS

chewmail [OPTIONS] <MAILBOX> ...

DESCRIPTION

chewmail is a program for archiving mail. It is inspired by the by the Python-based archivemail, but with more useful semantics. All mail is archived to the mailbox specified with the --output-box switch, in mbox format. It can read mailboxes in mbox, Maildir and MH formats.

Internally, chewmail uses Mail::Box, so it support file names and URLs supported by that module.

OPTIONS

-o mailbox-format, --output-box=mailbox-format
The mailbox to archive messages to. The mailbox is run through the Date::Format module, so it supports all it's conversion specifiers. The date and time is relative to the messages timestamp, or the current time if the timestamp is impossible to determine. A sample of the conversion specifiers follows:
     %%      PERCENT
     %b      month abbr
     %B      month
     %d      numeric day of the month, with leading zeros (eg 01..31)
     %e      numeric day of the month, without leading zeros (eg 1..31)
     %D      MM/DD/YY
     %G      GPS week number (weeks since January 6, 1980)
     %h      month abbr
     %H      hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
     %I      hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
     %j      day of the year
     %k      hour
     %l      hour, 12 hour clock
     %L      month number, starting with 1
     %m      month number, starting with 01
     %n      NEWLINE
     %o      ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
     %t      TAB
     %U      week number, Sunday as first day of week
     %w      day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
     %W      week number, Monday as first day of week
     %x      date format: 11/19/94
     %y      year (2 digits)
     %Y      year (4 digits)
 
 
-d days-old, --days=days-old
Only archive messages older than than this many days.
-D date, --date=date
Only archive messages old than this date. The date can be any date understood by Perl's Date::Parse module.
-R, --only-read
Only archive messages that are marked seen or read.
--delete-immediately
Synchonize the mailboxes after every message is moved. This will be substantially slower but may provide better recovery for some mailbox formats in the event of a crash.
--preserve-timestamp
Preserve the atime and mtime of the input mailbox. This only affects file-based mailboxes, such as mbox.
-n, --dry-run
Go through all the motions of archiving the mail, but don't actually change any mailboxes.
-v, --verbose
Output more informational messages. Use multiple times for more verbosity.
-q, --quiet
Don't output any messages other than error messages.
-V, --version
Print the version number then exit.
-h, --help
Print usage information then exit.

EXAMPLES

Archive two day old messages in inbox to inbox-old:
   chewmail --days 2 -o inbox-old inbox
 
 

Archive read messages to a mailbox named the year-month of the message:

   chewmail --only-read -o %Y-%m inbox
 
 

SEE ALSO

archivemail(1), Date::Parse, Date::Format, Mail::Box

AUTHOR

Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca>