Gerald Oskoboiny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:35:20PM -0230, Chris Gushue wrote:
> > Is there a way to archive mailboxes at the beginning of every month (or
> > some other period) like Pine does? Just after a couple weeks, my
> > debian-user mailbox (mbox) is 3.6 MB with over 1200 messages. As the
> > mailbox gets bigger, Mutt takes longer to open it.
> >
> > Eg. move the contents of debian-user to debian-user-1999-aug
> >
> > Any solution would be great, not necessarily a mutt-specific one
> > (eg. procmail/crontab/scripts/etc). I'm sure I saw a message about this
> > on a mailing list I am on, but couldn't find anything. Perhaps it was on
> > a newsgroup somewhere...
>
> A few years ago I started archiving an extra copy of all my incoming
> email as it's received (with procmail), and find it really nice
> to be able to hit "d" or ^d when reading mail without worrying
> about losing something important.
>
[snip excellent procmail info]
>
> I recommend using filenames like yyyy-mm instead of 1999-aug
> because they appear in date-order when sorted alphabetically.
> (like in the output of ls.)
Normally I would have realized this, but it was early for me :)
I think this is mostly the solution I am looking for, though the other
solutions posted on the list (logrotate and that perl script) also seem
like they will work well. But too complicated for me (to set up, that
is - I understand them).
Although, I think I might make directories such as 1999-08/ and deposit
a copy of the email in there with the regular mailbox name. At the
moment I have 39 mailboxes, and having 5 or 6 new ones appear each month
won't be any better :) I'm hoping for Mutt to be able to display the
mailbox list in columns like Pine can/does (this has also been mentioned
on this list not long ago).
Thanks everyone for all the great replies. Mutt rules and this list is
cool :)
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