archivemail 0.7.0

archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. archivemail can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate mbox format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email.
Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking up too much space on your disk. Archiving old messages to a separate, compressed mailbox will mean:
1. Your mail reader will get a huge performance boost loading and reading your mail.
2. You will be taking up less disk space, since old mail will be compressed. (Mail usually compresses quite nicely.)
3. You wont be confronted with semi-obsolete mail all the time.
If you would prefer to just delete old email rather than archive it, archivemail can do that too.
Main features:
- Support for archiving IMAP, mbox, MH and maildir format mailboxes.
- You can configure the amount of days before mail is considered old -- with the default being 180 days.
- Messages that are flagged important are not archived or deleted unless you specify the --include-flagged option.
- Optionally warn about duplicate Message-IDs in a mailbox.
- You can specify an option so that unread mail is never archived.
- Allows you to store the compressed archive mailboxes in a directory of your choice, with an extension of your choice.
- Support for deleting old mail rather than archiving it.
- Optional ability to archive messages older than an absolute date with the --date option.
- Ability to only archive messages over a certain byte size.