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 stuff that I don't want to loose but is very old.

I've been thinking about a MySql archive for my old mail but I'm far too busy at the moment to implemet it. I assume from this thread that there is no existing app for this.

Has any heard of one?

William Kenworthy wrote:
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 the given date.

No need to script it or anything else - mail readers like evolution will
do this in a few clicks, search and then & drag&drop.  I have a few
hundred meg of mail strung across a number of accounts available this
way in evolution.

BillK

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:39 +0000, Joel Merrick wrote:

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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