On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000 or thereabouts, James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> My ${HOME}/Mail directory is currently nearly 350 Megs in size.
> A lot of it is due to high volume mailing lists such as debian-user
> (48 Meg so far), and this can only get much worse as I join more
> and more high volume lists.
>
> So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail
> folders? Perhaps 'mutt' is the way to go?
>
> I had thought of splitting the {HOME}/Mail into two and
> run a second instance of Kmail, with a different profile,
> to handle the mailing lists, but KMail doesn't seem to allow
> for this as far as I can tell (perhaps for some good reason).
What I do, is use a nice little utility called "archivemail" and set it up via
CRON to archive my mail folders (mbox) at least once a month. Then I use another
utility called "grepmail" which can search both my active mboxes and the
compressed archived mail.
--
Steve
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Sunday Jul 11 2004 08:21:02 AM EDT
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
-- P. Medawar
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