On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:05:16PM -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote: > I'm just switching to evolution, and am interested in reasonable > strategies for handling a large amount of email.
Great! Perhaps there are many different strategies that vary depending on the particular requirements. > I receive 100 messages a day before deleting spam This is _not_ large amount of mail :-) > Currently I use fetchmail to dump the mail into MH-style directories, > which evolution sees as MH folders. I also use fetchmail, but it delivers the mail to my local MTA, e.g. local mail spool (/var/mail/$USER). > What other strategies do people suggest? There is no exact solution that'll fit to everyone. Let me tell you what I'm doing. I have more than 2000 folders and sub/subfolders and it takes ~5 min to start Evo on a relevantly powerfull machine (PIV 3000 MHz/512 MB RAM), but as in your case, my data is crucial and I need it, I must have access to messages sent/received 2-3 years ago. I receive everything in my Inbox as it is very easy and fast to search for recent messages. Once a week (or fortnightly) I sort the mail manually in the relevant folders. Additionally, I've several vFolders with different filters: for example mail from a specific sender that is very important, etc. As sometimes I need special and specific searches, I have one vFolder "on_the_fly", which searches all local folders based on how I configure it. Thus if I need now to find all messages containing "Port Ravenna" I'm just setting the filter and Evo indexes all folders. I don't think that there's any other e-mail client in the world that is capable of doing this. In fact, the strategies/possibilities are countless. -- Regards, Yavor Doganov JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Free Software Association - Bulgaria http://fsa-bg.org GNOME in Bulgarian! http://gnome.cult.bg _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
