> What's the purpose of having two archives I should clarify that when i say "archive-<date>" i really mean "archive-<year><month>". So it's not like i'd have thousands of archive folders. Just 12 per year.
The reason i want two is because sometimes i'll know approximately when a message came in, and so i can go straight to that archive folder and quickly look it up. Right now i use one huge archive folder, and it's really slow anytime i do anything with it. But it's good to have a huge archive folder too, for those times when you don't know what month something came in, or you want to reread a thread that spanned several months and don't care if it takes mutt three minutes to thread the folder. > what's the purpose of having an archive as well as a working copy if > you're not going to store flag updates (clearing 'N', writing 'r', what's > deleted, and so on) in the archive? Well, i don't care much about the 'r' flag. The 'N' flag is meaningless in my archive folder, since i've already read all of its messages back when they originally came in. And nothing ever gets deleted from the archive folder (except spam). The archive is not supposed to be a mirror of my inbox, it's supposed to be a never-emptied trash bin i can dig old stuff out of. An attic. > In either case, if you go that route, I'd recommend pushing the deletion > but not synchronizing the folder just to give you a last chance for a > simple check; if you pipe out 12 messages, you had better have exactly > 12 flagged for deletion in the new mutt. Yeah, this was the part i was really worried about. But if i do a strcmp of the entire file, i can be perfectly confident that i'm deleting the right message. And i won't have to strcmp all 20,000 messages in the archive, since i just have to look at messages whose filesize is exactly the same. -- Mike Schiraldi VeriSign Applied Research
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