-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I'm subscribed to large volume lists (not as large as debian-users, tho!). Still, I check the interesting looking headers straight from the mailbox Procmail puts them without moving mails from particular IN-folder to one where the "interesting stuff" would go. Maybe your system is clearer and better, but I've just accustomed myself to this; all mail for mutt-users goes to =mutt-users and such forth. Sometimes the mailbox can get pretty fscking big, but then I just eye through the headers and mark threads, which doesn't seem interesting, read and it goes to =archive/mutt-users. > 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)? I'll create bzipped tarballs from my archive directory once it's got "big enough". Then I store it in my hard drive and maybe some day move to portable media like CD-ROM. My bzipped archive archive (:-)) is now a bit over 21M and the current ~/Mail/archive 30M. This is the way I manage my mails. :-) - -- Jussi Ekholm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://erppimaa.ihku.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9E3MmAtEARxQQCB4RAoI1AJ0VD/ms4Sd8YlhJ6gJC2nsh4AdDXwCeLnuZ JePoZSfLl++m3kDkCkWS8CU= =yJPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
