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Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)



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
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