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Re: Email programs that work.



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> 
>  Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 2006-08-31 08:56:17, schrieb hendrik@topoi.pooq.com:
> >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:20:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> Besides, how does one manage a 2*10^6 email folder?  My 21" monitor
> > 
> > In sumary I have 1592 folders and subfolders...
> > 
> > In summary arround 7.14 million messages with over 65 GByte messages.
> 
>  I think I'd roll those *old* messages into gzipped mbox files and
>  install grepmail if I really needed to search them.

mutt has no trouble reading gzipped mboxes.  :-)

# Use folders which match on \\.gz$ or \\.bz2$ as [gb]zipped folders:
open-hook       \\.gz$  "gzip  -cd %f >  %t"
close-hook      \\.gz$  "gzip  -c  %t >  %f"
append-hook     \\.gz$  "gzip  -c  %t >> %f"

Those are all default supplied mutt options.  I've a cron job that
regularly appends mbox contents to existing gzipped archives.

(0) heretic /home/keeling_ all dox/archive_Mail/2006_Mail_spam*
-rw-r--r--  1 keeling keeling 5618151 2006-09-02 23:50 dox/archive_Mail/2006_Mail_spam.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 keeling keeling  399560 2006-09-02 23:50 dox/archive_Mail/2006_Mail_spamcop-reports.gz


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