Re: lenny & thunderbird filters-SOLVED!

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:52:50 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> On 11/05/2010 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote:

>> And that remembers me the third of the Thunderbird's annoyances:
>> storage files for each folder cannot go beyong 4 GiB).

> oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer? 

I hate archiving (I hold "fresh" e-mails dated on 1999) :-P

What I do is using as much as possible a tree structure (remember the 4 
GiB limit is set for "each folder", so you can have many subfolders to 
distribute your e-mail messages and so avoing that limit).

> I've been afraid to archive, because I didn't know where the old
> messages go:)
> NOTE, now I do know where they go:
> http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Archived+messages

Good catch! I didn' know it neither :-)
 
> the 4GiB limit also goes for archived though, so.. what do you do?

I'm not sure whether IMAP accounts/storage are also affected for this 
limitation (I guess yes) but in either case, use a logical mail 
structure. I like using "topics" and then "years" (or viceversa, years 
then topics); the more folders, the better, i.e.:

inxox
|
|- 2010
  |
  |-lists
  |   |- debian-es
  |   |- debian-es
  |   |- debian-bugzilla
  |
  |-personal
      |- banking
      |- friends
      |- shopping
           |- ebay
           |- ...

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón