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archivemail


Information about the package, archivemail, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The archivemail package is designed for, A tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes.


Package Name:

archivemail

Summary:

A tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes

Description:

Archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. It 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.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.7.2

Release:

4.el6

Size:

53 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for archivemail


Control the archivemail package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install archivemail

This command will install archivemail on the server.

yum remove archivemail

This command will un-install archivemail on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove archivemail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove archivemail

This command will un-install archivemail on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove archivemail when using the -y flag.

yum update archivemail

This command will update archivemail to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove archivemail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update archivemail

This command will update archivemail to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove archivemail when using the -y flag.

yum info archivemail

This command will show you core information about the archivemail package.

yum deplist archivemail

This command will show you the dependencies for archivemail. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update archivemail

This command will check if there is an update waiting on archivemail. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.