begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:38:26AM -0700:
> Christian Seberino wrote:
> >
> > What do people do to manage huge and growing Sent and Saved folders
> > in their email system of choice?
>
> 1) I don't use any sort of webmail
Check.
> 2) I keep my active mailboxes of resonable sizes (except my work one. We
> won't talk about the 18,777 messages in the INBOX there).
Check.
> 3) I archive older (two weeks to a month) messages off to an archive
> folder, specfic to each malbox. (kplug-list -> ARCHIVE/kplug-list)
Check. Sorta.
I have procmail drop incoming mail into ${folder}-new, and then use a
folder-hook to set the sent-directory to ${folder}. I tend to leave
email that I *might* respond to in the -new folder, until I'm too far
behind, and then I move the whole mess into ${folder}, read or not.
> 4) Direct access. No IMAP or anything fancy like that. I ssh into the
> system, and run mutt locally.
Check.
> 5) I never worry about Sent as I never go into that folder anyway. At
> work, I will send myself bccs a) to keep the threading b) to verify that
> the email system is working.
I go into the sent folder irregularly and archive stuff out to the
appropriate folders. If I carry on a lot of email with a friend or
family member, email to and from them gets archived into a dedicated
folder, otherwise it's in "friends", "family", "kplug-email", etc.
New Year's Day or thereabouts I archive *everything* into a subdirectory
for the previous year. This /could/ be automated, but it's a useful time
for introspection -- if I get to the point where it's too onerous to do
this by hand, I'm at a point where I'm spending too much time messing
with email.
> On gmail, I keep the inbox small. I agressively archive messages.
I use POP3 for gmail, and only use the web interface to report spam --
which is pretty much anything I didn't send to that account myself.
Now that there's supposedly IMAP support, I may have to look at setting
up some more gmail accounts.
--
Gmail is great for mailing lists and newsleters.
Stewart Stremler
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