On 12Feb2009 16:00, Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: | On Thursday, February 12 at 09:26 PM, quoth James Freer: | > I've just joined this group to learn more about mutt. I like the idea | > of using vim for editing but i'm unsure of what one can do to archive | > emails. I've used Thunderbird and that has an ImportExportTool that | > allows one to do an index and copy individual emails as html to a | > folder. | | Egads - why would you want to do that? Your email archives must very | hard to search through!
Indeed. I just archive to other folders. It's all mail! | > I don't know what folk do when an inbox gets too large with most | > email clients - what else can one do for archiving? | | Heh, well, some people I know don't do anything. Their inbox is | several thousand messages. yeah. Mutt with the header-cache feature is very efficient on large mailboxes. | For me, my inbox is used as a list of | "things I need to take care of". Things like mailing list emails get | automatically delivered into alternate folders, where I keep only the | last 3 months of messages---anything older gets moved to a "deep | storage" archive folder. [...] Speaking for myself, my "delete" action just moves the message into my archive folder. So for folder "foo" the archive folder is "OLD/2009/foo" this year. (Except for spam; that goes to bogofilter for accounting and then discarded.) | If I ever need to refer to something in deep storage, I can always go | find it (using mutt) and search for it (using mutt). I find mairix handy for searching folders en mass. I've got a small wrapper script that runs mairix to make a folder of matching messages and then invokes mutt in read-only mode on the result folder, then discards the result folder when the mutt exits. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
