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       mail-expire — program to extract outdated messages from mbox files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       small as needed (by removing outdated messages).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