On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Joachim Schipper < joac...@joachimschipper.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 08:07:45AM -0500, Josh Smith wrote: > > Dear Misc@, > > > > I have a largeish ( around 10 gb) mail archive stored in a mbox file > > and it's starting to get a bit unwieldy to maintain, it's difficult to > > search through and etc. With that in mind I was wondering what others > > on the list might be doing to maintain their mail archives? > > > > Would I be better off maintaining this in a maildir? If so what are > > my options for conversion? > > > > Weather or not I keep it in mbox format or convert it to something > > else - what sort of tools are out there to break it up into multiple > > archives by year or perhaps sender? > > Maildir would help with access, at least. There are lots of options for > conversion, including your mail client (I *know* mutt can do this.) > > Have you considered http://sup.rubyforge.org/? I've heard mixed things > about it (it's still in beta, and it does have bugs), but it's supposed > to handle large volumes of mail well. > > Similarly, IMAP has a SEARCH extension. Most IMAP servers will keep > indices for you, but getting the mail client to issue the proper > commands (instead of searching locally) may take some doc-reading. > > Joachim > > -- > PotD: databases/p5-DBIx-DBSchema - database-independent schema objects > http://www.joachimschipper.nl/ > > Joachim, Thanks for the info. This is my mail archive so I'm not actively accessing it a lot but I think I will test out several of the mbox->maildir conversion utilities mentioned in the thread and see if maildir better meets my needs. I was not familiar to sup before but I do think I'll take the time to give it a spin it looks very interesting and like a lot of the comments on its site said it looks like it might be a worthwhile replacement for mutt. Thanks, -- Josh Smith KD8HRX email/jabber: juice...@gmail.com phone: 304.237.9369(c)
