Archmbox a is perl based email archiver which can perform different and specific actions on one or more mailboxes.

It's been more than three years from the last release of archmbox, and now here we are again. I'd like to than all contributors for their enthusiasm that pushed me to start working again on this piece of software.

This release is not a milestone, and won't probably change the way you archive emails; by the way, there are some nice features that worth a try; option to customize the archive mailbox name was added and support for logical and in regular expressions based archiving was added as well.

The usual code cleanups and revisions were performed as always.

Archmbox home page can be reached at the following url:

http://adc-archmbox.sourceforge.net/

First create the directory for storing logs:

# mkdir /var/log/bind
# chown bind.bind /var/log/bind

The add the following statements in named.conf:

logging {
channel b_log {
    file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 9 size 1m;
    print-time yes;
    print-category yes;
    print-severity yes;
    severity info;
};
channel b_query {
    file "/var/log/bind/query.log" versions 4 size 1m;
    print-time yes;
    severity info;
};
category default { default_syslog; default_debug; b_log; };
category queries { b_query; };
};

All parameters are well explained in the Bind ARM, so I'll just add a quick note about version and size. version tells bind to keep a fixed numbers of backups of the log file (it acts like a rotation mechanism similar to logrotate), while size specifies the maximum size of the log file (once the size exceed, logs are rotated).

Since mutt is my favorite email client, I manage to configure it to let me use multiple identities at need. This means that my configuration must take care of setting the correct sender address (the From: header) and the correct signature whenever I need to compose a new message or reply to one I received.

Setting the sender address

There are few changes you have to do to let mutt configure the sender address correctly. First ensure that you have the $alternates set in your .mutt.rc configuration file:

alternates = "(you@domain.tld)|(you@otherdomain.tld)"

then set the following variables:

# Allow editing of headers when composing a message
#
set edit_headers

# Set the From: header to the original's To: when
# replying to a message
#
set reverse_name

# Use the $from variable for the sender address
#
set use_from

This configuration takes care of setting the correct sender address when replying to a message. Now you only need to teach mutt how to choose different identities when composing a new email. The trick is done by these two macros:

macro generic "<esc>1" ":set from='You <you@domain.tld>'"
macro generic "<esc>2" ":set from='You <you@otherdomain.tld>'"

Simply press <esc>1 and then m to compose a new email using the first address, or press <esc>2 and then m to use the second one.

Setting the signature

To set the correct signature, send-hooks are needed. Add the following lines to your configuration:

send-hook "~f you@domain.tld" "set signature="~/.domain.sig""
send-hook "~f you@otherdomain.tld" "set signature="~/.otherdomain.sig""

Mutt decides which signature to use by looking at the sender address of the message.

Development

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