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

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

James Sinnamon wrote:

> Thanks everyone for all your ideas.  My previously unmanageable
> Mail directory will be manageable again very soon, but right now 
> I will be putting it on hold until I get my own Mailman server 
> working.
>
> Some further questions (feel welcome to post any response to 
> debian-user):
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:17 pm, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > Better, turn on Kmail's expiration processing.
> >    
>
> Where do I find this? What sub-menu? Does it allow me the option of putting
> e-mails into an archive, or does it just purge them?
>  

Choose a folder
Click "Folder" on the menu bar, choose properties.
Read the form.

I think it gets <plonk>ed.


You can also get the dialogue by right-clicking the folder.

>  
Somewhere else, you get to choose _when_ it expires. Probably you don't 
want it asking silly questions all the time, or having to wait an hour 
or two:-)



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John

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