Jeff, Why don't you try to use filters and labels instead of search folders. I have an imap account, too. Just create filter rules which label mails in a certain way, e.g. all mails having Received-Date in 2003 get a label, called 2003. Then you can create other rules which move mail according to labels they have. Works very nicely for me. I don't trust these virtual folders! Hope that helps. Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 13:23 -0600 schrieb Jeff Nelson: > Environment: evo 2.26.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) > > Email storage: > 1. imap work account with no folders other than INBOX > 2. maildir account with a hierarchy of folders (675 total). Email gets > moved from imap/INBOX to maildir/FOLDER for storage & archiving. > > I have years worth of email, going all the way back to 2002. The > single-maildir hierarchy is starting to suffer under the weight of > 32,000 message files stored in 675 separate folders. At startup, > evolution chews up a lot of CPU time and disk I/Os rebuilding the search > folders I have created; it takes a long time to shutdown because > evolution is "checking folder for consistency". (This seems to be > working better now but I still want to proceed.) > > What I'd like to do now is archive the email in a new set of maildir > folders so I can back it up and then remove it. My thought was to: > > 1. create a new email account using maildir storage (one for each year > from 2002 to 2008); these are the archive accounts > 2. create a search folder (one for each year) containing messages sent > or received in that year > 3. select the messages from the search folder and move them to the > appropriate archive/INBOX folder. > > I am stuck on step 3. Selecting the messages works, but evolution won't > move them. I suspect it has to do with the fact that the search folders > are virtual, spanning all the maildir accounts. > > Is there any way for me to find and archive messages by year from one > maildir-based account to another, without having to go through each of > the 675 folders? > > Thanks. > > -Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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