so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000
messages going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and
fail every few days.
if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will still see and have to
deal with it.
how are folk dealing with this?
randy
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Could you unsubscribe from that old sent email box once you move to it?
Actually I'm finding this as increasing problem myself: I'm not used to the
(really quite normal) "put all messages into the sent folder" model. How do
people avoid drowning in these?
I used to use thunderbird with Nostalgy
Robert P. Goldman wrote (at 13:44 on 1 Jan 2019):
Could you unsubscribe from that old sent email box once you move to
it?
Actually I'm finding this as increasing problem myself: I'm not used
to the (really quite normal) "put all messages into the sent folder"
model. How do people avoid drown
On 1 Jan 2019, at 15:48, Randy Bush wrote:
so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000
messages going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and
fail every few days.
if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will still see and have to
deal with it.
how are fo
On 1 Jan 2019, at 16:25, Bill Cole wrote:
On 1 Jan 2019, at 15:48, Randy Bush wrote:
so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000
messages going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and
fail every few days.
if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will st
> how are folk dealing with this?
I’m new to MM but I’m using EagleFiler for filing. It just copies each email as
an `.eml` file and prunes the duplicates. You can encrypt the store, but if you
choose not to, EagleFiler just stores the files in `Files` in a structure like
this:
~
…/Mail Ar
Hi,
so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000
messages going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and
fail every few days.
if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will still see and have to
deal with it.
how are folk dealing with this?
My (current)
On 1 Jan 2019, at 21:42, Rick Cogley wrote:
how are folk dealing with this?
I’m new to MM but I’m using EagleFiler for filing. It just copies
each email as an `.eml` file and prunes the duplicates. You can
encrypt the store, but if you choose not to, EagleFiler just stores
the files in `Fil
On 2 Jan 2019, at 0:54, Bill Cole wrote:
EagleFiler or any other external archival tool it certainly a
reasonable tactic. Anything that puts scores of thousands of files in
a single directory (as the 52363 files in "Files" shown) has some risk
of making the sorts of mistake in handling very
On 1 Jan 2019, at 21:48, Randy Bush wrote:
> so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000 messages
> going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and fail every few
> days.
>
> if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will still see and have to deal with
> it.
> EagleFiler or any other external archival tool it certainly a
> reasonable tactic... However an archive & indexing tool (is) probably
> better at handling it than an IMAP client which just happens to create
> it as a side effect of mimicking how users handle messages.
Bill - that's a good point.
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