Hi, Philip!
Thanks for the reply!
On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:
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.
That's also what I want to hear: I wanted to learn from people who think
different than myself regarding email. It must be a reson! ;-)
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.
How often do you use / read those mid-nineties email messages now?
I still have the email messages from 2002, but live doesn't stop :-) so
I didn't take a glance of them since ages!
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).
Me too.
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.
This is something that I also treasure and the email-archives are always
there where I intensively do email (not on the iPhone - but that's ok
for me, I can wait till I get home).
Even more: the archives are there even whitout an internet connection.
Simple connectivity is one thing, but also finding what I need.
See my previous message: MailSteward or HoudahSpot make that realy easy.
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 {} +`.
Oh, that sound fun too :-)
Philip
Thanks for the insights,
Vlad
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