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

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000, James Sinnamon (frodo000@bigpond.net.au) 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 you want is procmail (or a similar utility).
>
>  

Better, turn on Kmail's expiration processing.



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