On Thu 12-Jul-2001 at 12:49:39PM +0000, Jonathan Miller wrote:
> I really love the concept of vfolders, which are basically SQL
> statements that create "folders" out of a bunch of mail in a database.
This is a definite issue with the mail-as-file system for storing mail.
Like most people, I have my mail archive categorised and stored by
context (lists|customers|projects etc..), which is fine most of the time
since 'limit' does great searches.
The problem is mail that belongs in two or more categories. Currently I
just put multiple copies wherever I think I might want to look for it
later - obviously this is a really inefficient use of space and it would
be nice to be able create links in/between Maildirs rather than copying
the files (kind of like cross-postings in a news spool).
When I had everything in mbox files, I occasionally used grepmail/grepm
to do cross-mailbox searches. The cute thing with grepm is that it
creates an mbox file with the search results and opens it in mutt.
This is something like your 'vfolders', though painfully slow with the
amount of mail I've got.
I've thought about writing a script that does the grepm thing with
Maildirs. Ideally it would create the vfolder as a Maildir containing
only linked files, so I could have as many vfolders as I like without
having to go and buy a bigger disc. Maybe someone has already written
this.
Bruno
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http://bruno.postle.net/
