Re: Strategies for archiving mails
* Kai Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000820 19:13]: > I am searching for some tips how to archive and collect my mails. I do > not want to delete mails I get. After 3 months using Linux my mailboxes > grow and grow. > > How do you sort and archive your mails? I want to collect some possible > solutions for first information and to see what is possible. > > If it is a integrated mutt-procmail-solution it would be nice. There has been an interesting thread on this topic starting end of July. The subject was "automatic mail archiving". David Champion posted a nice solution to the problem on July 31 (not exactly sure about that date). It spoils make, procmail, and mutt and a clever use of symbolic links. I have it running here for about ten mailing lists, and it works beautifully. -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: Strategies for archiving mails
Kai Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for some tips how to archive and collect my mails. I do > not want to delete mails I get. After 3 months using Linux my mailboxes > grow and grow. > > How do you sort and archive your mails? I want to collect some possible > solutions for first information and to see what is possible. > > If it is a integrated mutt-procmail-solution it would be nice. I'm using a combination of procmail and a couple shell scripts for mail sorting and archiving. Procmail sorts things into monthly directories such as ~/mail/2000/08 with various mail folders (Maildir-style) in there. One shell script that gets called by my Mutt config files displays all of the mail folders in the current month's directory, plus the previous 2 months for quick access. At the beginning of a new month, I have a cron job running to convert the previous month's mail back to mbox format (using a program from qmail - maildir2mbox) and then is gzipped (I patched Mutt with the compressed folders patch). Did I miss anything? Maybe... but I have (most of) my Mutt config files and scripts at http://mutt.lazygenes.net - a lot of which was helped along by the great help from the users on this mailing list, and a little dedication to Mutt :) I've been using procmail to sort into monthly directories for the past year now, with no problems. I switched to Maildir a few months ago, and the script I use to automatically convert and compress old mail has been working fine as well (one or two tiny bugs, which got fixed rather quickly). Hope this is of some help to you. -- Herb: All born in wedlock? Homer: Yeah, though the boy was a close call. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? PGP signature
Re: Strategies for archiving mails
+ Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using a combination of procmail and a couple shell scripts for mail > sorting and archiving. Procmail sorts things into monthly directories such > as ~/mail/2000/08 with various mail folders (Maildir-style) in there. I like the idea of hierarchic mail sorting into subdirectories. I think it works with mbox mail folders as well? > scripts at http://mutt.lazygenes.net - a lot of which was helped along by I will take a look at the scripts. Thank you for information. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/
Re: Strategies for archiving mails
Kai Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > + Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm using a combination of procmail and a couple shell scripts for mail > > sorting and archiving. Procmail sorts things into monthly directories such > > as ~/mail/2000/08 with various mail folders (Maildir-style) in there. > > I like the idea of hierarchic mail sorting into subdirectories. I think > it works with mbox mail folders as well? Yes, it works just fine with mbox mail folders - it is what I was originally using. I only recently switched to using Maildir. > > scripts at http://mutt.lazygenes.net - a lot of which was helped along by > > I will take a look at the scripts. Thank you for information. Hopefully you can get some use out of something on the site, its the reason I made it :) -- Burns: Good Lord, Smithers! You look atrocious. I thought I told you to take a vacation. Homer: Uh, Smithers already left, sir. I'm his replacement, Homer Simpson. Homer the Smithers PGP signature
