I have well over 80,000 emails that I have to keep up with.  Makes most 
mail clients choke and attempting to archive it by hand takes way too 
much time every day.  I have changed clients several times over the 
years and some have handled filters better than others, so some is 
organized. some isn't.

I use IMAP, which is great, but it makes searches a bit more difficult. 
  I have about 1.7 gigs between my mail spool and my imap folders.  So 
it is not your average amount of email.

Shannon

On Mar 12, 2004, at 11:12 PM, will hill wrote:

> Shannon, the magnificent!
>
> Who's email do you have to search and why?  If it's your own, I'd 
> think you
> can get away with using a modern mail client to filter your mail by 
> group
> then archive it all by year, quarter or whatever is practical.  From 
> there,
> the old wetware will direct you to the likely hit and grep or any other
> search tool will take you the rest of the way.  If you have to, you 
> can make
> new mailboxes for each condition you work on and use your condition 
> report
> database to narrow things down.  If each case in numbered and your 
> condition
> report database has enough keywords, you are set.  If you have to 
> organize
> everyone else's life .... my head explodes for you.  What is really 
> going on
> here?
>
> On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:27, you wrote:
>> I have to be honest, I usually only have time to thumb through the
>> three magazines that I am subscribed to - login, Linux Journal, and
>> Sysadmin Mag.  If something does not catch my eye immediately, it does
>> not get read.
>>
>> The life of an admin in charge of 270 user accounts, ~20 Solaris
>> servers, ~15 Linux servers, ~100 node beowulf, ~50 windows machines, 3
>> firewalls, 5 VPNs, 7 layer 2/3 switches with multiple VLANs, 3 OS X
>> machines, and ~15 laptops with various OSes all BY MYSELF!!!  Which I
>> guess is why I have been working too many 60 hour weeks on top of 
>> going
>> to school.  :-)  Sounds like I should add a partridge in a pear tree 
>> or
>> something to that....  LOL  At least I got to go fishing this past
>> weekend!
>>
>> I will have to go back and look for this.  Thanks for the pointer....
>>
>> Shannon
>>
>
>
>
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