* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011127 15:43]:
> The other thing, which it seems is often overlooked and > underappreciated, is the ability to use nice things like grep, find, > xargs and the like on your mail the way it oughta work. Hm, is there a quick way to convert a mbox to Maildir so I can have a quick look to see what it's like on a huge mailbox? (he says, blatently avoiding reading the manual) > > I do tend to leave deleting/archiving mail until I absolutely can't > > stand waiting for the client to load folders any more, though, so > > maybe that mainly applies to very large mailboxes. I've killed > > three MUA's doing that so far :) > > Well, I certainly don't mean to tell you how to live your life, but > here's how I do mine: > > set mbox_type=Maildir set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date > +%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`" set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date > '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`" set move I do plan on doing something like this, it's just a matter of being bothered to do it. Maybe when my freebsd cvs-all folder gets tedious to open :) -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/
