Archive certain IMAP directories with archivemail.

archivethunder.sh

#! /bin/bash

# create archive directories:
archiveroot="$HOME/Archief/mail/"
dir="$archiveroot`date +%Y`/`date +%m`/`date +%d`/"
mkdir -p  $dir

# set passwordfile, file should contain nothing but the password.
#  You should at least make this file only readable by you. 
pwfile=$HOME/Private/archivemailpw

# set location of thunderbirds local database.
globalmsg=.thunderbird/1vsl0pde.default/global-messages-db.sqlite
pattern="%@mail.example.com%"

for uri in `sqlite3 $globalmsg "SELECT folderURI FROM folderLocations WHERE folderURI LIKE \"$pattern\""`; do 
    archivemail \
        -d 60 \
        -o $dir \
        -u \
        --no-compress \
        -P $pwfile \
        # enable for testing -n -v \
        $uri ;
done