Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-09-03 Thread René Clerc
* darren chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [31-08-2002 22:48]: > What about maildir2mbox? I think it's part of qmail, yes? Or, simply from within mutt: :set mbox_type=mbox And then you can save them to a compressed folder using the aforementioned patch. -- René Clerc -

Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-09-03 Thread Christian Ordig
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:45:17AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > lazyness ;-) I simply do a tar czf archiv.year < folderlist ... converting > > to mbox would include some more steps. > > Sorry you can not simply cat maildir/* >mbox. I never claimed this. [...] I know all the things you wrote

Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-08-28 Thread darren chamberlain
* Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-28 04:36]: > > > you're not updateting it in maildir form, what's the advantage of > > > using maildir here over mbox? > > > lazyness ;-) I simply do a tar czf archiv.year < folderlist ... > > converting to mbox would include some more steps. > > So

Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-08-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > you're not updateting it in maildir form, what's the advantage of using > > maildir here over mbox? > lazyness ;-) I simply do a tar czf archiv.year < folderlist ... converting > to mbox would include some more steps. Sorry you can not simply cat maildir/* >mbox. It throws you badly with "^F

Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-08-21 Thread Sven Guckes
* Fernan Aguero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-21 14:05]: > I have currently about 300 M in my ~/mail dir. .. Not that disk > space is scarce ... but I'd like to keep old mail in an organized > mail archive (perhaps using the same organization of mailboxes, but > also separated by year/month whatev

Re: mutt and mail archives

2002-08-21 Thread Dan Boger
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:06:42AM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote: > Now my question is, in the event I need to access/search this archives > is mutt able to read compressed files? If so, what would be the > recommended storage (so that mutt will read them later)? there is a compressed-folder patch,

mutt and mail archives

2002-08-21 Thread Fernan Aguero
Hi again, I have currently about 300 M in my ~/mail dir. Perhaps many of you have still more. Not that disk space is scarce ... but I'd like to keep old mail in an organized mail archive (perhaps using the same organization of mailboxes, but also separated by year/month whatever). Before reinve