* Chris G <c...@isbd.net> [2009-09-25 17:15 +0100]:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
[...]
> > > > I use Archivemail (http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/)
> > > > to do exactly what you describe.
[...]
> > Now as it happens none of those top level directories go down
> > beyond 1 level, but each of them does have several
> > sub-directories, each of which gets
> > archived as expected.
> >
> I guess it's archiving all the folders/mailboxes that are addressed by
> ~/Mail/MLists/* and similar. I suppose I could do something like that
> because my hierarchy isn't all *that* deep. I could even use things
> like ~/Mail/*/* though I'm not sure if that wouldn't catch too much in
> some cases.
If all of your folders are mbox and therefore files, it wouldn't
be difficult to do with some scripting.
#! /bin/sh
archivedir=~/Mail-archive
date=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
cd ~/Mail && find . -type f -exec sh -c '
subdir=${1%/*}
mbox=${1##*/}
if [ "$subdir" = "." ]
then
outputdir=$archivedir
else
outputdir=$archivedir/${subdir#./}
fi
archivemail --no-compress --date="$date" \
--output-dir="$outputdir" --archive-name="$mbox" "$mbox"
' sh {} \;
