Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features
Hi, On Thu, 18 Feb, 1999 à 04:59:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: Reply-To: Hi! I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and mutt to get/sort/read mail. I've been subscribed to the debian list (among others) for about 2 months, and I just realized I have 42 megabytes of email in ~/Mail. Can anyone recommend a reasonable way to archive these messages, i.e. by two-week intervals or months? I'd imagine that someone who has received this list I think that it could be done with procmail For lists that have archives on the web that will sort by date or thread, your best bet is: rm mailbox The Data Conservation Corps would go nuts knowing how many copies of the same messages exist in local mailboxes when they can all be accessed on the web. No need to save debian-user of you have a web browser. Unless you pay the phone on the duration of your communication (even locale ones) ! -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features
Reply-To: Hi! I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and mutt to get/sort/read mail. I've been subscribed to the debian list (among others) for about 2 months, and I just realized I have 42 megabytes of email in ~/Mail. Can anyone recommend a reasonable way to archive these messages, i.e. by two-week intervals or months? I'd imagine that someone who has received this list for a long time has come up with a way to archive the list. Also, I've heard that gnus can make collapsable threads. Does anyone know if mutt can do that or can be coerced to do that? Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 04:59:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: Reply-To: Hi! I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and mutt to get/sort/read mail. I've been subscribed to the debian list (among others) for about 2 months, and I just realized I have 42 megabytes of email in ~/Mail. Can anyone recommend a reasonable way to archive these messages, i.e. by two-week intervals or months? I'd imagine that someone who has received this list for a long time has come up with a way to archive the list. Also, I've heard that gnus can make collapsable threads. Does anyone know if mutt can do that or can be coerced to do that? For lists that have archives on the web that will sort by date or thread, your best bet is: rm mailbox The Data Conservation Corps would go nuts knowing how many copies of the same messages exist in local mailboxes when they can all be accessed on the web. No need to save debian-user of you have a web browser. I've found two problems with this: 1. Archives on the web are usually on slow sites, with the exception of DejaNews. Both the KDE lists.kde.org and the Debian egroup.com sites are unbearably slow for my tastes. 2. Threads in progress (like the heated Gimp Debian Logo contest debate on debian-devel): I'd like to keep the whole thread intact until discussion ceases. A rm mailbox will orphan any future messages from that thread. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Threads in progress (like the heated Gimp Debian Logo contest debate on debian-devel): I'd like to keep the whole thread intact until discussion ceases. A rm mailbox will orphan any future messages from that thread. Use GNUs to read your mailing list mail and it can autoexpire articles (deleting your local copy) after a time period you configure. Later, Dale (who reads Usenet and Mailing lists with GNUs, and regular email with elm) -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.clifton-labs.com | +--+
Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Threads in progress (like the heated Gimp Debian Logo contest debate on debian-devel): I'd like to keep the whole thread intact until discussion ceases. A rm mailbox will orphan any future messages from that thread. Use GNUs to read your mailing list mail and it can autoexpire articles (deleting your local copy) after a time period you configure. Also mutt can expire articles after a certain time, which is configurable. I'm using this here and it works great. Here's the relevant-part of .muttrc: # # Tag old messages in mailinglists for expiring them. # Simply press d, after entering one of the folders, iff mutt asks # tag- # folder-hook =debian-user$ 'push T~r1m\n\;' # 1 months Ciao Christian
