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On Thursday, February 12 at 09:26 PM, quoth James Freer:
> I've just joined this group to learn more about mutt. I like the idea
> of using vim for editing but i'm unsure of what one can do to archive
> emails. I've used Thunderbird and that has an ImportExportTool that
> allows one to do an index and copy individual emails as html to a
> folder.
Egads - why would you want to do that? Your email archives must very
hard to search through!
> I don't know what folk do when an inbox gets too large with most
> email clients - what else can one do for archiving?
Heh, well, some people I know don't do anything. Their inbox is
several thousand messages. For me, my inbox is used as a list of
"things I need to take care of". Things like mailing list emails get
automatically delivered into alternate folders, where I keep only the
last 3 months of messages---anything older gets moved to a "deep
storage" archive folder. I use mutt to automatically maintain that
cutoff, via a folder-hook, like so:
folder-hook =Sent 'push "<tag-pattern>~r
>3m<enter><tag-prefix-cond><save-message>=Archive.Sent<enter><untag-pattern>~A<enter>"'
If I ever need to refer to something in deep storage, I can always go
find it (using mutt) and search for it (using mutt).
~Kyle
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This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to
us.
-- Western Union internal memo, 1876
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