NAME

       mail-expire — program to extract outdated messages from mbox files

SYNOPSIS

       mail-expire  AGE FILE  [FILES...]

DESCRIPTION

       mail-expire  is  a  small  utility  which  only  purpose is to help on keeping the size of
       multiple mailboxes as small as needed (by removing outdated messages).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  Front-
       Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

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