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NAME

mbox-month-pack - Copy mailbox messages into monthly mailbox files.

SYNOPSIS

  mbox-month-pack [options] folder ...

DESCRIPTION

This program copies mailbox messages into monthly (or yearly if the -yearly option is specified) mailbox files. By default, monthly mailbox files are created with filenames of YYYY-MM format. If the -yearly option is specified, than messages will be split into yearly, YYYY, files. If a mailbox file already exists, messages will be appended to it.

This program is provided as part of mharc to provide the ability to import existing mailbox messages into mharc archives, or as a possible replacement for filter-spool for sites that have alternate methods for managing incoming mail.

OPTIONS

-debug

Like -verbose, but prints much more.

-help

Print out help message.

-man

Print out the manpage.

-outdir directory

Directory to place mailbox files. If not specified, the current working directory is used.

-verbose

Print status of what is going on.

-yearly

Generate yearly-based mailbox files instead of monthly-based.

DEPENDENCIES

This program uses MHonArc's date parsing functions. Therefore, MHonArc must be installed on your system and the MHonArc libraries located within Perl's include path.

LIMITATIONS

This program does not remember what messages it has processed. For example, if you run the program twice in a row like the following:

  prompt> mbox-month-pack mail.mbx
  prompt> mbox-month-pack mail.mbx

The resulting monthly mailbox files will contain two of each message.

Appending to pre-existing gzipped monthly, and yearly, mailbox files are not recognized when splitting input. If you want output to be appended to existing compressed mailboxes, you must uncompress them first before invoking this program.

VERSION

$Id: mbox-month-pack,v 1.4 2002/09/15 03:33:08 ehood Exp $

AUTHOR

Earl Hood, earl@earlhood.com

This program is part of the mharc archiving system and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the mharc distribution.