Rob --
...and then Feztaa said...
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% Alas! David T-G spake thus:
% In fact, I often don't save the original message, but only my outbound
% reply with his message quoted in it. I can follow the conversation well
% enough iand save *some* disk space (yes, I already save a lot of mail, but
%
Alas! David T-G spake thus:
% In fact, I often don't save the original message, but only my outbound
% reply with his message quoted in it. I can follow the conversation well
% enough iand save *some* disk space (yes, I already save a lot of mail, but
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Alas! Rob 'Feztaa' Park spake thus:
- It's useful to be able to search for every message a specific person has
ever sent me.
True, but I don't often need to look for old messages. In fact, I don't
even know why I keep archives. ROFL :)
Ah, I remember now. I don't like the way mutt
I just had another thought: Might it make sense to store sent mail
together with normal messages?
A fundamental problem is that mutt's Search feature cannot search over
multiple mailboxes. Thus, if I want to review a series of e-mails that I
exchanged with someone about a specific topic, then it
Alas! David T-G spake thus:
In fact, I often don't save the original message, but only my outbound
reply with his message quoted in it. I can follow the conversation well
enough iand save *some* disk space (yes, I already save a lot of mail, but
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:41:11PM +0100, Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Donnerstag, 27. Dez. 2001 at 18:33:53, Thomas Hurst wrote:
I have a script scan all my mailspools (I use mbox) and move anything
older than a week to archive/year/mailbox/month-year-mailbox -
this keeps my
I was thinking about the merits of keeping one large mailbox, versus
keeping a mailbox that's rotated monthly/quarterly/yearly. Some people
prefer to keep one huge mailbox, and some other people prefer to rotate
it. I'd like to explore the reasons why people do it one way and not the
other.
* Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
A fine-grained rotation scheme might work better; e.g. I could have
a primary folder that holds the last 3 months of messages, and an
archive folder that holds everything else.
I have a script scan all my mailspools (I use mbox) and move anything
older
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:33:53PM +, Thomas Hurst wrote:
* Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
A fine-grained rotation scheme might work better; e.g. I could have
a primary folder that holds the last 3 months of messages, and an
archive folder that holds everything else.
I have
On Donnerstag, 27. Dez. 2001 at 18:33:53, Thomas Hurst wrote:
I have a script scan all my mailspools (I use mbox) and move anything
older than a week to archive/year/mailbox/month-year-mailbox -
this keeps my active mail easily to hand, and searching for older mail's
as easy as I need it to
* Benjamin Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How does it scan your mailboxes, does it use grep mail or some other
methods? If its short could you perhaps post it?
It reads the file line by line looking for ^From lines.
It's not very well written, but it works. I really should make use of
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:29:34PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
I was thinking about the merits of keeping one large mailbox, versus
keeping a mailbox that's rotated monthly/quarterly/yearly. Some people
prefer to keep one huge mailbox, and some other people prefer to rotate
it. I'd like to
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:29:34PM -0500, Philip Mak (dis)graced my inbox with:
Reasons I keep my mail in one large mailbox:
- I'm too lazy to go look up how to rotate my mail.
That's no excuse. Maybe the next time I drive by your house, I'll be too
lazy to stop and I'll just drive right
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