In a message dated: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:07:59 EDT
Travis Roy said:
>> Over 1130 folders with over 65982 messages (I say "over", because this
>> is just the mail I've been concerned enough with to port into
>> evolution). As far as disk space, all I can say is that its over 1GB
>> and intermingled with a lot of other files.
>
>I'm sorry, but how could you possible be required to keep so much email?
Required to keep and wish to keep are two entirely different things :)
>I have probably 200-250 messages in my saved items, and I like
>to keep my inbox under 50..
The operative word there is *like*. It is your *preference* to keep
your mail in that manner.
> Once my saved items starts getting bigger then that I archive it to CD.
> Still easy to access if I really need it and keeps my email lean and quick.
It's rather a pain to access a CD when you're not where the CD is.
And it's often a pain to always carry a CD with you. Especially if
you're a consultant who moves around to different client sites often.
My situation is not like Bruce's, however, I too have have a ton of
e-mail; dating back almost a decade, which consists of mail list
archives, personal e-mail, etc. I have 684 directories with over
45000 messages. All of which is in mh-style folders. My mail is
both "lean and quick" as you put it, and, it's all indexed using
glimpse, which means I can search it very quickly!
The only down side is that I can't connect to it via IMAP, however,
now that I have a broadband connection, that's not an issue :)
(there are also a lot of things I can do with my e-mail in mh-format,
that I can't do if it were stored under an IMAP format, but I digress)
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