On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:08:35PM +0000, Charles Howard wrote: > > I'd like such a system but I haven't got it to work. My question is: > > Do you, a mutt user, who is reading this, delete most of your email within a > short > period (say a week) ?
No. Real spam that was caught by my filter and properly categorized gets deleted. Everything else gets archived. > Here's my background. I am an academic and I get about 1000 emails a month. > This doesn't > include solid-crap spam (nor mailing lists) and I need to keep most of the > 1000. I used pine I am a network and systems plumber and get about 1000 emails a day. > Maybe mutt just isn't for keepers of emails? Or am I missing something? mutt isn't great at sorting email. Mutt is certainly for keepers, searchers and archivers of email. On the mail server, my mail is spam-checked, then filtered into folders. Each list gets its own folder. Major topics not in lists get their own folders. Occasionally a person or a company becomes a topic in its own right. The entire tree structure is replicated under /archive/, as well. Anything that comes in and is misfiled is moved to the proper folder. If I've read something, I leave it alone. At the end of the month, or when a folder is getting full of history I don't need, I tag everything more than two months old and move that into the /archive/ equivalent folder. For the initial sorting, procmail or mailfilter or whatever you like is good. Just make sure the editing procedure is easy enough that you're willing to do it every few days, and several times a day while you are getting it set up. -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
