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       mail-expire — program to extract outdated messages from mbox files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       small as needed (by removing outdated messages).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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