zipmail

#!/bin/sh
#
# zipmail - Converts Maildir to mbox and compresses
# Copyright (C) 2000 Chris Gushue <chris@blackplasma.net>
#
#     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or
#     (at your option) any later version.
#
#     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#     GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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#
# $Id: zipmail,v 1.6 2000/09/01 18:56:03 seymour Exp $
#
# This script requires maildir2mbox, which is part of qmail
#
# It has worked for me for the past 3 months, but I still
# make no guarantees as to its safety. If you wish to use it,
# any loss of mail is your problem and not mine.
#
# I run it from cron as follows:
#
# # Run on the 2nd day of every month (converts/compresses last month's mail)
# 30 04 2 * * /home/seymour/.mutt/zipmail `/home/seymour/.mutt/mailmonth 1`

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
WHERE="/home/grigouze/Mail"

# What folder of Maildir boxes do we want to process?
# (In my case, which month - ~/mail/2000/08 for example)
if [ -z $1 ]; then
  WHAT=`/home/grigouze/.mutt/mailmonth 1`
else
  WHAT=$1
fi

cd $WHERE/$WHAT

echo "Backing up $WHERE/$WHAT:"

for folder in *
do
  if [ -d $folder ]; then
    echo "  $folder"
    # Set up variables for maildir2mbox
    export MAILDIR="$WHERE/$WHAT/$folder"
    export MAIL="$WHERE/$WHAT/$folder.txt"
    export MAILTMP="$WHERE/$WHAT/$folder.tmp"
    # Run it...
    /home/grigouze/.mutt/maildir2mbox
    # Clean up and compress
    if [ -f $folder.txt ]; then
      rm -rf $folder
      mv $folder.txt $folder
      gzip $folder
    fi
  else
    echo "  <$folder>"
  fi
done

echo "done."