Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-12-20, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Similarly, IMAP has a SEARCH extension. Most IMAP servers will keep indices for you, but getting the mail client to issue the proper commands (instead of searching locally) may take some doc-reading. In Mutt, use = instead of ~

Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-20 Thread Joachim Schipper
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

Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-20 Thread Josh Smith
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Josh Rickmar joshua_rick...@eumx.netwrote: 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

Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-20 Thread Josh Smith
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl 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

[OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-19 Thread Josh Smith
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

Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-19 Thread Josh Rickmar
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

Re: [OT] Mail Archive Management

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Josh Smith on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:07:45 EST: 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? There's mbox2maildir out there. You might also look at