On 19.07.12 08:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 08:02:26 Mark Wendt did opine:
> > 2 GB Inbox? I think VMS invented this nifty little thing called "mail
> > folders." ;-) Use your filters and move mail out of your inbox to
> > those folders, and you'll avoid the dreaded 2 GB Inbox file size limit.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Yes Mark, I have about 40 other folders that the mailing list traffic gets
> sorted to. The inbox OTOH, is PM's, a decades worth.
Holy crap, Gene, that is an awfully impressive sorting backlog. :-O
One quick fix might be to move all that to e.g. "old_stuff_unsorted",
then the inbox is empty ... or something like Andy's method; just sort
it by year, two minutes to sort the lot.
It can be a royal pain when it's not sorted, and it's only when a GUI is
used that the number of mailfolders is constrained, I figure. Here I
have it all fairly finely sorted into a bunch of mailboxes:
$ ls -1 mail | wc -l
1041
and even one list can be sorted into lots of subtopics:
$ ls -1 mail/cnc_linux_* | wc -l
359
Usually filename completion helps to pick the right destination mailbox
as each post is sorted as soon as it's read, but if not, then a little
"mail ls" shell function helps me find candidate pigeonholes:
$ which mls
mls is a function
mls ()
{
ls -xF ~/mail/*$1*
}
$ mls bldc
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_debugging
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_emc2_doco
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_mesa
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_motor_buying
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_motor_drives
/home/erik/mail/cnc_linux_bldc_motors
It costs only a few seconds to sort the informative posts on any thread
on any day. The 10603 LinuxCNC posts I've archived over the years are in
mailboxes with an average content of 29 posts - much better to sort
through than 10603.¹
If not deleting 80% of posts, to create a filtered archive, I'd delete
the lot, and rely on the official list archives. That'd save some time
and a bit of disk space.
Erik
¹ egrep -c '^From ' mail/cnc_linux_* | gawk --field-separator ':' \
'{n+=$NF; i++; print i,$NF} END {print "Total = "n,"Av. = "n/i}'
--
If you keep anything long enough, you can throw it away.
(Quote stolen from Gene. It's especially true if the stuff ain't sorted.)
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