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>