On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:23:20AM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000 or thereabouts, James Sinnamon wrote: <snip> > > > So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail > > > folders? Perhaps 'mutt' is the way to go? > > Though I use and recommend mutt, it has little to do with this problem. > > > 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. > > I do all that too. However, for the OP, it might be simpler to just > not archive mailing list mail. You're duplicating lists.debian.org. > If it's all out there in a searchable archive, why do you also need it > on your box? Good point. Personally, I prefer to have an archive locally as opposed to online, for those occasional times, one can't reach the 'net. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunday Jul 11 2004 12:26:01 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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