Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.2245 +0100]: > Have you used mairix? It's an excellent tool. I have to concur. However, I don't see it solve the challenge I am facing. I could maintain a file of email addresses of my correspondents and then have mairix symlink all relevan

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Timo Railo
Which one? Using Exchange (agreed) or throwing stuff in to database (would be interesting to hear why). Timo [read from here] I'd like to have an independent software which would do the following: - Read any IMAP box (also sent messages) and download the contents - Throw the message data in SQL

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.2245 +0100]: > Have you used mairix? It's an excellent tool. It generates > indices from your maildirs which you can then search to form what > are sometimes called "vfolders" or "search folders". Its search > options are tailored to mail

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Timo Railo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.2154 +0100]: > [read from here] > I'd like to have an independent software which would do the following: > - Read any IMAP box (also sent messages) and download the contents > - Throw the message data in SQL database and attachments to disk (wi

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040220 04:22]: > One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had > an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy > had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically > maintain a folder hierarchy of correspon

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Timo Railo
Hi! [skip this, rambling] I've been wondering about the same stuff lately. I have some 4 different accounts, abt. 5-10 different addresses and lot's of mail. I would also like to archive my mail (all mail). "Archiving" just doesn't work with mbox (or maildir) format. I almost killed a server re

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.1306 +0100]: > One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had > an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy > had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically > maintain a folder hie

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.1337 +0100]: > I remember seeing something like that too, and when I got KDE 3.2 > installed a few days ago on my laptop, I noticed KMail had "Search > Folders". I just briefly looked at it thinking "oh, so they implemented > this", had

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 20 February 2004 13:06, martin f krafft wrote: > One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had > an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy > had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically > maintain a folder hierarchy of corres

better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically maintain a folder hierarchy of correspondents, where each such folder receives all mail exchanged (sen