* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 05:54]:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:19:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> >* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]:
> >
> > set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date '+%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`"
> > set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`"
>
As a stop gap, I ran a script I have to trim down my mailboxes. Here
it is for anyone who's interested. GPL license.
This takes mbox files greater than sizeLeft and splits them so only
about sizeLeft bytes remain (it finds message boundaries). It then
names the old part by the date of the last
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:19:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]:
>
> set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date '+%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`"
> set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`"
> set move # move read mails from inbox to $mbox (default
On 25-Apr-2002 Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> on Thu, Apr 25, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> > I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
>> > big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it ta
On 25-Apr-2002 Ross Boylan wrote:
> I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
> big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to switch
> between them.
>
> Other than cleaning up, are there other approaches that people can
> suggest for handling this? I thi
* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > How big are your mailboxes? I find my wait threshold starts to get
> > tripped at ~500-1000 items, which most of my mailboxes hit quickly ;-)
>
> My primary inbox is around 2,7
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:38:29PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
[long snip]
>
> My primary inbox is around 2,700. Debian-user is at 27,000.
>
> >
> > > Other than cleaning up, are there other approaches that people can
> > > suggest for handling this? I think I want my mail kept in a database.
W
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:38:29PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
| On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > on Thu, Apr 25, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > > I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
| > > big, and I'm getting annoye
> > I also note that kmail is popular, but as far as I can tell it
> > would suffer the same speed problems as mutt.
> Depends. If it indexes its mailboxes (and many GUI mail clients do),
> probably not.
It does use indexes, and having thousands of mails in a folder is not
really a problem.
--
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Apr 25, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
> > big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to switch
> > between them.
>
> Wha
Hi Ross,
If you use emacs then I suggest gnus. It has this type of
functionality but I don't use very much of it. Among other things,
it's able to sort the mail based on things like subject and sender.
Elizabeth
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am currently using mutt, but many of my
on Thu, Apr 25, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
> big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to switch
> between them.
What mailbox format are you using? Default is 'mbox'. Alternatives
include mai
I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to switch
between them.
Other than cleaning up, are there other approaches that people can
suggest for handling this? I think I want my mail kept in a database.
I see gm
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