OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I know this is not really the forum, but all the bright people who can contribute to this are here... For years, I've kept a substantial hierarchy of folders in my mail client, reflecting a filing system similar to that for other files in my home directory. Currently there are over a hundred

Re: OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Terry Hancock
I have never used it, but I understand that procmail is the thing you want: a tool which can process mbox contents and do arbitrary things with them according to headers, etc. Python also has some modules for handling email formats (and I'm sure Perl does too). So there's probably a variety of

Re: OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031205 12:04]: It struck me I can copy job and topic emails to the non-mail file system, and get rid of them from the email folders as soon as they are answered. But that has to be done one at a time - no drag-and-drop possible either. List emails are

Re: OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:02:48PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: - If I read the ~/Mail directory from mutt, I only get to see the top level folders. If I convert it to a flat structure, there will be over 100 folders to scroll through to find or file anything. I've been thinking of