mail-expire(1)
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mail-expire -- program to extract outdated messages from mbox files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the size of multiple mailboxes as small as needed (by moving outdated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 FrontCover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.