2011/4/15 Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com> > I for what ever reason do not trust my self to store my critical > digital information locally and thus store it all on these different > free services that have a long duration (they or their parent > organization) such as gmail and other such first gen on line file > stores for the masses sites... well the issue is I am running out of > disk room on gmail after 5 years of a no delete policy (10's is 100's > of thousands emails) and I need to filter out and delete the ones I > will truely never read from those that I might read and those that for > a lack of a better phrase "OMG HOW DID I FORGET THIS ONE".... large > numbers of these can be filtered out by some short of fairly trivial > regular expression (a DFA that has no sub FA that is a NFA level > RE's).... I can do this with some fancy download and store your local > machine as a system in box and use procmail or something to do this... > for personal reasons we dislike the idea of having download and then > upload and are looking for a solution that can be completely in > gmail.... namely we want to sort the archived mail into categories or > do the same but sorted by sender... we then want to use it by googls > good ad-hoc search allows us to comb the archieve while getting rid of > email that will never be dealt with by with a human this requries some > fancy gmail configs also... I do not expected anyone here to be but > can anyone point me to a good site to start my studys on advanced > gmail use >
Maybe it is possible to achieve what you look for using Gmail's advanced search operators, filters and labels. Particularly useful are the Gmail Lab's features: - SmartLabels - Nested labels - Go to label - Import/Export filters - Search autocomplete Pointers: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1075350&topic=1075367&answer=1075381 http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/02/gmail-adds-folders-by-improving-label.html http://lifehacker.com/#!276499/build-advanced-gmail-filters-and-persistent-searches http://www.gtricks.com/gmail-tricks/gmail-transfer-email-accounts/ Alex _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
