On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Josh Rickmar <joshua_rick...@eumx.net>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 08:07:45AM -0500, Josh Smith wrote:
> > Dear Misc@,
> >
> > I have a largeish ( around 10 gb) mail archive stored in a mbox file
> > and it's starting to get a bit unwieldy to maintain, it's difficult to
> > search through and etc. With that in mind I was wondering what others
> > on the list might be doing to maintain their mail archives?
> >
> > Would I be better off maintaining this in a maildir?  If so what are
> > my options for conversion?
> >
> > Weather or not I keep it in mbox format or convert it to something
> > else - what sort of tools are out there to break it up into multiple
> > archives by year or perhaps sender?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
>
> fdm (http://fdm.sourceforge.net/) can do that.
>
> Josh
>

Josh,
Thanks for pointing me toward FDM, it looks like an excellent solution for
"munging" my current large archive into several smaller archives based on
the criteria I choose.  I'll definitely play around with it later today.


Thanks,

Josh Smith
KD8HRX
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