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

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

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:49:25PM +1000, James Sinnamon (frodo000@bigpond.net.au) wrote:
>  
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> > Karsten and others,
> >
> > Firstly, thank you all for the responses.
> >    
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> NP.
>
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> > 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.
> > >      
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> <...>
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> > Of course you would be aware that Kmail's filtering capabilities 
> > can do something similar to what is done above.  Do you use procmail 
> > instead of, or as a complement to, a GUI e-mail client such as Kmail?
> >    
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> The difference is this:
>
>  - If you use KMail's filtering tools, when you decide to switch to
>    another mail client (permanently or temporarially), you lose the
>    filtering.
>  
It's a standard kmail feature. Most people do not want to come to terms 
with procmail: I've used it, I had some pretty fancy filters that could 
spot most mailing lists, even those I'd never seen before, and drop the 
email into the appropriate folder, creating it if necessary.


Of course, if I changed email client I'd have to change those filters 
too, because the email folder format would likely be different.

Now I have an IMAP email service where per-user procmail filters are not 
possible.

At the time I was using procmail, using it with kmail was unsafe - the 
authors said so.

>  - If you use procmail, your filters are independent of your mailer.  I
>    can access my mail with mutt, balsa, kmail, evolution, or the shell.
>    Procmail doesn't care.
>
> This is the advantage of proper scoping and modularization of tools.
> It's a powerful concept.
>
>  
Procmail is fine for handling email at the time of delivery. In this 
case, the email's already in the folders.Kmail folders. Kmail can expire 
old email, all by itself.




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