better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically maintain a folder hierarchy of correspondents, where each such folder receives all mail exchanged

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 20 February 2004 13:06, martin f krafft wrote: One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically maintain a folder hierarchy of

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.20.1337 +0100]: I remember seeing something like that too, and when I got KDE 3.2 installed a few days ago on my laptop, I noticed KMail had Search Folders. I just briefly looked at it thinking oh, so they implemented this, had a little

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.20.1306 +0100]: One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically maintain a folder

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Timo Railo
Hi! [skip this, rambling] I've been wondering about the same stuff lately. I have some 4 different accounts, abt. 5-10 different addresses and lot's of mail. I would also like to archive my mail (all mail). Archiving just doesn't work with mbox (or maildir) format. I almost killed a server

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040220 04:22]: One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy had his mail system configured in such a way to automatically maintain a folder hierarchy of

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Timo Railo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.20.2154 +0100]: [read from here] I'd like to have an independent software which would do the following: - Read any IMAP box (also sent messages) and download the contents - Throw the message data in SQL database and attachments to disk (with

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.20.2245 +0100]: Have you used mairix? It's an excellent tool. It generates indices from your maildirs which you can then search to form what are sometimes called vfolders or search folders. Its search options are tailored to mail searches,

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread Timo Railo
Which one? Using Exchange (agreed) or throwing stuff in to database (would be interesting to hear why). Timo [read from here] I'd like to have an independent software which would do the following: - Read any IMAP box (also sent messages) and download the contents - Throw the message data in

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.20.2245 +0100]: Have you used mairix? It's an excellent tool. I have to concur. However, I don't see it solve the challenge I am facing. I could maintain a file of email addresses of my correspondents and then have mairix symlink all relevant