On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:39:11PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > I've set Procmail to sort every mailing list into a different folder, > thus mutt-users goes to =mutt-users. And mutt-dev goes to =mutt-dev. > And all debian-* lists are sorted the same way, too. Then I have some > local mailboxes, like =logcheck, =cron and so on. And every read mail > goes to =archive/<same_named_folder>. I'm pretty satisfied with it, and > it's pretty logical. For me, at least. :-)
I would use your system if it wasn't for large volume lists like debian-user. When I don't read mail for say 24 hours there are perhaps 200 to 300 new messages in debian-user. If I want to clear messages quickly, but avoid deleting stuff that I want to keep for reference or a reply, I open IN-* to see all new mail for that list. From there it goes either to =* or I delete it. After that I open =* and can focus on messages that need further attention. By the way I also have ~/Mail/archive/*. So a message I want to keep for eternity has been in three different mailboxes read/controlled by mutt. Thank god for mutt this isn't the nightmare I would have perceived it to be just a couple of weeks ago. At the time I was using Win/Eudora for mail. Handling every message three times in a mailer like that would drive me crazy. Does anyone keep everything from a list like debian-user on their hard-drive to have a local archive? I can imagine doing something like that, because searching the web-based archives is a pain. Is this a practical solution in regards to the size of the mailbox (ie. disk usage and speed of searching)? Bob
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