On 2016-02-08 05:50:12 (+0100), Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 6 Feb 2016, at 21:49, Patrik Fältström wrote:
350k email messages is nothing.
I have just below 2 million. 12k added each month, approximately.
I am new to MailMate, so please bare with me and my slightly OT
question: why keeping so many email messages in MailMate (or any other
email app at all)?
I can't speak for anyone else, only for myself.
I still have all my email messages since 2002 but keep only a relevant
(and therefore *very small* and *constantly fresh*) subset in my email
app of choice (currently MailMate) and all the rest in archives
(external to the email app and servers and searchable via Finder
and/or an email archive app).
My archives go back to the mid-nineties. Since mail (generally)
compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I decided
a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything than to
regularly evaluate what's relevant. When laptop disks were still
expensive and connectivity less ubiquitous, I used a selective imapsync
to only download my most active mailboxes. It was error-prone and
painful to maintain.
Not using my email app as a task manager (and delegating this to a
dedicated task manager app) makes this easy too.
I also use a dedicated task manager now (OmniFocus).
I'm not pretending that my method is better and I also understand that
MailMate can graciously manage a huge amount of email - but why
keeping all this information there and not somewhere else, once it not
implying constantly replying / forwarding / etc.?
The problem with "somewhere else" is getting to it. Simple connectivity
is one thing, but also finding what I need. These days, it's usually
pretty easy to find an internet connection but MailMate's search
features are a lot better than `find Maildir -type f -mtime foo -exec
grep -i mumble {} +`.
Philip
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