Overview
PMMail is a great e-mail program. One of the shortcomings it has (along with most other e-mail programs) is the inability to archive messages.
PMMail Archiver is designed to fill this void. It can archive messages, reindex the message folders, and sort the address book.
This program was written as a command-line driven program so that it could be called from within PMMail as an external hook, usually upon exiting the program.
PMMail Archiver can be driven entirely from the command line, or a configuration file may be set up for most common parameters.
The program is available in Windows and OS/2 versions. The Windows version of the program is called warchive.exe, and the OS/2 version is called oarchive.exe. Throughout this manual the program is referred to as archiver or archiver.exe. Simply replace the archiver with the appropriate name for the operating system you are using.
Folders are filtered according to the criteria specified on the command line and in the (optional) configuration file. Nested folders will be of a folder that does not match the criteria will still have the filters applied to them. Also, you can specify a path of folder directory names to archive a specific folder. See the examples for more specific information on this feature.
Files are filtered according to the criteria specified on the command line and in the (optional) configuration file. Filter options can be either all required, or any required. If all required is specified then a message will need to match all filter options before it is archived/restored. If any required is specified then a message will need to match only one filter option for it to be archived/restored.
Files are archived into a standard zip file. There is an additional file created called backup.bag which contains the PMMail information for each file archived.
Restored files are put into a special folder created by the program, called Restored Files. This folder is created in each account that has files restored. Inside this folder the program will recreate the same folder hierarchy as existed when the file(s) were archived. It will not create empty folders.