Very often, use it weekly if not every other day or so. Hit rate is about 100% of things that actually exist in my email. As Adam stated, sometimes get "false" positives if I do not specify the search very well (ask for anything that contains radio in the body and you get a LOT of hits)...
Everything (just about) that I have is in folders. And some folders of folders (EG: This list is under a Maildir folder labeled 0-Lists. There are currently 32 other folders inside that one (ietf, nanog, cisco-nsp, etc). In my case we do a lot of gov (local, county, 911, etc) support and I often have to go back one, two or even three and four years and "remind" them what was discussed and what we agreed to do (or not)... -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net On Wed September 17 2014 09:26, Adam Moffett via Af wrote: > How often do you guys go back and find something from your 40-90 gigs of > email? When you did need something, how successful were you at finding > it? I gave up trying to keep everything after realizing that I almost > never wanted anything older than 6 months, and if I did then it took an > inordinate amount of effort to find it. > > I sort important things into folders....if I didn't sort it then it > probably wasn't important. Everything in my inbox older than 6 months > gets deleted.
