On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:05:23PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:19:42PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > The above strategy is a pretty good description of what I actually do. > > I wish I was that organized. It's difficult for me to muster the > self-discipline to actually do this. > The major discipline in my experience is just that of creating a usable and easy to navigate hierarchy for the saved messages. It's taken me a few years to tune this to my satisfaction. Once created it makes saving messages relatively easy.
> > The only difference in my case is that I use a procmail lookalike > > (it's a perl sript) to sort incoming mail, basically into a mailbox > > per mailing list and my main inbox. > > Yes, that seems like a good extension. And easy enough to do. > > > Which parts of the above would you automate? > > Michelle pointed out archivemail. This way, I could have an "active" > folder per project, then automatically move messages to a corresponding > "archive" folder. > I do something akin to this I suppose. My mail lives on a remote system (at Gradwell.Net) where there is limited disk space, though much less limited now in fact. I do a daily backup from there to my home system using rsync. I use maildir so each message is a separate file and thus old mail messages on my home system will never get deleted when doing the rsync copy, this means that I can 'thin out' the stored mail on the remote system at Gradwell and still have the old messages on my home system. > > I can't really see what can be automated except, possibly, the > > "archive by project". My archive folders don't really correspond to > > anything that could be gleaned from the E-Mails (except, in some > > cases, the sender) so the ones I save I just save manually. > > Suppose that I only have a global inbox and a global todo folder (aside > from the mailing lists). Then I could tell Mutt to always remember > message ids of refoldered messages together with their target folder. > > Then "archive by project" could look in the References header whether > one of the message ids there is known, then automatically file to the > correct folder. > Yes, I suppose so, however my todo/pending messages rarely get moved to storage/archive. -- Chris Green
