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

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from James Sinnamon:
> Karsten and others,
> 
> Firstly, thank you all for the responses.
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:35 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000, James Sinnamon 
> <snip/>
> > > > So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail 
> > > folders?  Perhaps 'mutt' is the way to go?
> >
> > Procmail, or its equivalents.
> > <snip/>
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:32 pm, S.D.A. wrote:
> > What I do, is use a nice little utility called "archivemail" and set it up
> 
> I take it that archivemail can handle mail folders and files which are

I don't know what he uses for archiving mail, but a shell script
wrapped around gzip that appends mail to a gzip archive works well.
cron runs mine:

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PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=/home/keeling/Mail
YEAR=$(date '+%Y')

for f in abuse headhunters headhunter_reply procmail root spamcop-reports spam; do
   if [ -e ${MAILDIR}/${f} ]; then
      cat ${MAILDIR}/${f} | gzip >> /home/keeling/dox/archive_Mail/${YEAR}_Mail_${f}.gz
      sleep 2
      sync ; sync ; sync
      echo "${0}: archived ${f} to: \$HOME/dox/archive_Mail/${YEAR}_Mail_${f}.gz"
      cat /dev/null > ${MAILDIR}/${f}
   fi
done
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If your MUA (mutt?) is smart enough, it can even read gzipped mail
folders. 


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