NAME¶
mail-expire — program to extract outdated messages from mbox files
SYNOPSIS¶
mail-expire AGE FILE [FILES...]
DESCRIPTION¶
mail-expire is a small tool whose only purpose is to help on keeping the
size of multiple mailboxes as small as needed (by moving outdated messages).
The old messages are compressed with gzip and stored in the file with the name
<MBOXNAME>.<MONTH>_<YEAR>.gz.
OPTIONS¶
- -u
- If an existing archive file with the expected filename is found, another
filename is to be choosen. For example:
<MBOXNAME>(NUMBER).<MONTH>_<YEAR>.gz.
- -t DIR
- Specify a different target directory for storing expired mailbox files.
Default is the current directory.
- --delete
- Drop the old messages. No backup will be made, be careful with this
option.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch blade@debian.org for the
Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no
Back-Cover Texts.