Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:34:38AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently > got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming > 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory

Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-26 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi! > > I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently > got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming > 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, > I've gone through

Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Is there such a beast? If not, how do you folks manage the great > crush of old, accumulated email messages on your systems? I use maildir format for my mailboxes. In maildir format, each message is in a separate file. This makes all sorts of manipulations quite

OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, I've gone through and deleted the mbox files that I knew I wouldn't want in the future.