.TH "MAIL-EXPIRE" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
mail-expire \(em program to extract outdated messages from mbox files 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBmail-expire\fR\  AGE FILE  [FILES...]  
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
\fBmail-expire\fR is a small utility which only purpose is to help on keeping the size of multiple mailboxes as small as needed (by removing outdated messages). 
.PP 
The old messages are compressed with gzip and stored in the file with 
the name <MBOXNAME>.<MONTH>_<YEAR>.gz. 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.IP "\fB-u\fP         " 10 
If an existing archive file with the expected filename is found, another filename is to be choosen. For example: <MBOXNAME>(NUMBER).<MONTH>_<YEAR>.gz. 
.IP "\fB-t DIR\fP         " 10 
Specify a different target directory for storing expired 
mailbox files. Default is the current directory. 
.IP "\fB\-\-delete\fP         " 10 
Drop the old messages. No backup will be made, be careful with this option. 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch blade@debian.org for 
the \fBDebian\fP 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. 
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