[lug] Mail archiving solutions

[dan radom]

* Joseph Crotty (jcrotty18 at attbi.com) wrote:
> The problem is how does one go about easily archiving email on a linux system?
> 
> All of my email is carbon copied to a master archive mbox file by procmail.  I
> would like to be able to run a cron job that calls a script, say weekly, that
> churns over the master archive file and sorts the mail into monthly files 
> (e.g. 0603.mail).
> 
> I trolled Google and the nearest I can come up with is an article here:
> 
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~des/scripts/sortmail_article.html
> 
> However, this solution seems to beckon the dark ages (circa 1998).  Anyone have
> any better and/or more recent ideas?
> 

grepmail.  there is no finer mbox solution.  there's gtkgrepmail for your
gui users out there.

dan