should archivemail strip X-Keywords headers from mbox?

I have a cron job to archive mail every month. All mailboxes are
mbox format. The script calls archivemail[1], which takes
messages older than certain date and moves them to a gzipped
mbox.

What I'm finding, though, is after it's finished the more recent
messages left in the original mbox no longer have their
X-Keywords: $Label1 headers (eg "Tags" in Thunderbird, after
archivemail is run the messages no longer have their tag colours).

Anyone know of an alternative to archivemail?

[1] http://archivemail.sourceforge.net

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Re: should archivemail strip X-Keywords headers from mbox?

Troy Piggins wrote:
> I have a cron job to archive mail every month. All mailboxes are mbox
> format. The script calls archivemail[1], which takes messages older
> than certain date and moves them to a gzipped mbox.
>
> What I'm finding, though, is after it's finished the more recent
> messages left in the original mbox no longer have their X-Keywords:
> $Label1 headers (eg "Tags" in Thunderbird, after archivemail is run
> the messages no longer have their tag colours).

It seems Thunderbirdies are kind of their own insulated group, but do I
read you correctly that they call headers "Tags"?


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Re: should archivemail strip X-Keywords headers from mbox?

* Blinky the Shark is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> Troy Piggins wrote:
>> I have a cron job to archive mail every month. All mailboxes are mbox
>> format. The script calls archivemail[1], which takes messages older
>> than certain date and moves them to a gzipped mbox.
>>
>> What I'm finding, though, is after it's finished the more recent
>> messages left in the original mbox no longer have their X-Keywords:
>> $Label1 headers (eg "Tags" in Thunderbird, after archivemail is run
>> the messages no longer have their tag colours).
>
> It seems Thunderbirdies are kind of their own insulated group, but do I
> read you correctly that they call headers "Tags"?

Not quite. You can 'tag' messages 'Important', 'Work',
'Personal' and so on. All this really does is add a header to
the message 'X-Keywords: $Label1', 'X-Keywords: $Label2' etc.
You can add your own too. Each one has a different colour.

I should clarify, TB2 calls them 'tags', TB1 calls them 'labels'.

I didn't think this was relevant, and didn't post to a specific
TB group, because I thought it more an archivemail issue. I
posted also to mutt group, because I thought there was a good
chance mutt users may implement archivemail or similar.

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Re: should archivemail strip X-Keywords headers from mbox?

Troy Piggins wrote:
> * Blinky the Shark is quoted & my replies are inline below :
>> Troy Piggins wrote:
>>> I have a cron job to archive mail every month. All mailboxes are mbox
>>> format. The script calls archivemail[1], which takes messages older
>>> than certain date and moves them to a gzipped mbox.
>>>
>>> What I'm finding, though, is after it's finished the more recent
>>> messages left in the original mbox no longer have their X-Keywords:
>>> $Label1 headers (eg "Tags" in Thunderbird, after archivemail is run
>>> the messages no longer have their tag colours).
>>
>> It seems Thunderbirdies are kind of their own insulated group, but do I
>> read you correctly that they call headers "Tags"?
>
> Not quite. You can 'tag' messages 'Important', 'Work',
> 'Personal' and so on. All this really does is add a header to
> the message 'X-Keywords: $Label1', 'X-Keywords: $Label2' etc.
> You can add your own too. Each one has a different colour.

Ah! Okay. I didn't know it was actually creating headers.

> I should clarify, TB2 calls them 'tags', TB1 calls them 'labels'.

'Kay.

Hmmmmm. I just fired up a system with TB on it. I marked an alt.test
message "Important". Even saving the raw message and opening it with a
text editor doesn't show any X-Keywords header. I must be missing
something. What?

I saw your request for replies to another group, but I don't really want
to subscribe to it just for this exchange.

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