I've got to say that I'm in a similar position to the original poster.
I've got a couple hundred meg of old mail in a maildir on a courier
server and it's kind of clogging up my home dir (maildir = $HOME/.mail).
I carry my home dir round on a usb stick and it's now taking up half the
stick with
Sounds like you dont so much need an archive, as just get the older
stuff out of the inbox?
Why not create a new sub-directory in imap and just shuffle the older
stuff into there?
I have them going back a number of years and just periodicly create
something like "archive-20041231" for mail up to
Why don't you simply create a new mail box and drag/drop it into the new
mailbox from within your imap client?
By the way your original post does not tell us which imap server you are
using, so no one can know how to transfer stuff out of the mailbox.
UW imap stores by default in mbox files (o
> I think I'll extend your one-liner to be able to do this.. I'm sure a
> little PHP or Perl should be able to thread this and present it in such
> a fashion :)
>
> >
be sure to post the finished product and the results when you finish ;-)
would be interesting to look at.
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On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:19 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> I don't think so but you can something more tricky, move them to a
> compressed file system and then setup a secondary imap server that
> look
> read only to that system.
>
> mail messages normally have a good compression ratio.
Joel Merrick ha scritto:
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:55 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Joel Merrick ha scritto:
Hi guys,
I've built up a LARGE (>140Mb) IMAP mailbox over the past few months and
was wondering if there's a way to archive this mail, but still have it
available to view (via h
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:55 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> Joel Merrick ha scritto:
>
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I've built up a LARGE (>140Mb) IMAP mailbox over the past few months and
> >was wondering if there's a way to archive this mail, but still have it
> >available to view (via https or some
Joel Merrick ha scritto:
Hi guys,
I've built up a LARGE (>140Mb) IMAP mailbox over the past few months and
was wondering if there's a way to archive this mail, but still have it
available to view (via https or something)
Thoughts?
# find . -mtime +120 -exec tar -rvf mail_archive.tar {} \; -exec
Hi guys,
I've built up a LARGE (>140Mb) IMAP mailbox over the past few months and
was wondering if there's a way to archive this mail, but still have it
available to view (via https or something)
Thoughts?
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