Re: Sharding by Year.

2021-06-08 Thread Michael Richardson
Bakul Shah  wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2021, at 9:05 AM, Michael Richardson  wrote:
>>
>> Well, it's outgoing email, so it's all mine, so it's all in my time zone.
>>
>> On Jan. 1, I do:
>> refile -src +outgoing all +outgoing/y2020
>>
>> well, I often forget Jan. so, "all" might be adjusted having run "scan"
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to treat these folders a single folder for
>> certain operations.

> You can use refile -link to year specific folders!

But that results in large directories with poor performance.




Re: Sharding by Year.

2021-06-07 Thread Bakul Shah
On Jun 7, 2021, at 9:05 AM, Michael Richardson  wrote:
> 
> Well, it's outgoing email, so it's all mine, so it's all in my time zone.
> 
> On Jan. 1, I do:
>  refile -src +outgoing all +outgoing/y2020
> 
> well, I often forget Jan. so, "all" might be adjusted having run "scan"
> 
> It would be nice to be able to treat these folders a single folder for
> certain operations.

You can use refile -link to year specific folders!



Re: Sharding by Year.

2021-06-07 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Michael Richardson wrote in
 <31957.1623081930@localhost>:
 |Ralph Corderoy  wrote:
 |>> outgoing/y2001  has 1287 messages  (1-1287).
 |>> outgoing/y2002  has 9335 messages  (1-9335).
 |>> outgoing/y2003  has 3909 messages  (1-3909).
 |
 |> Out of interest, how did you pick what's in each year?  Textually, with
 |> ‘2002’ appearing in the Date field.  Or as a year and if so was that
 |> local time, the sender's time, or UTC?  :-)
 |
 |Well, it's outgoing email, so it's all mine, so it's all in my time zone.
 |
 |On Jan. 1, I do:
 |  refile -src +outgoing all +outgoing/y2020

Damn, i just call a .rotate.sh asap, this year at 00:11:19.
Relevant part is

  cd mail || exit 4

  find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \
-not -name 'download' -not -name '*gmane*' \
-not -name '*.xz' -not -name '*.zst' \
-not -name '*.sh' -not -name .yearstamp |
  while read f; do
f=`basename ${f}`
if echo ${f} | grep -E '^[1-9][0-9]{3}\.'; then
  :
elif [ -s ${f} ]; then
  echo "Rotating ${f} to ${YEAR}.${f}.zst"
  zstd -T0 -19 -zc < ${f} > ${YEAR}.${f}.zst
  chmod 0400 ${YEAR}.${f}.zst
  : > ${f}
else
  echo "${f} is an empty file, removing it"
  rm ${f}
fi
  done

  echo $YEAR > .yearstamp

Of course sometimes threads cross the line.  Thus..

 |well, I often forget Jan. so, "all" might be adjusted having run "scan"
 |
 |It would be nice to be able to treat these folders a single folder for
 |certain operations.

Oh i wish my MUA could do this yet.  For many years in TODO:

 The absolute sensation would be joinable operations over multiple
 open mailboxes, e.g., views over multiple such!

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter   he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)



Re: Sharding by Year.

2021-06-07 Thread Michael Richardson


Ralph Corderoy  wrote:
> Hi Michael

>> outgoing/y2001  has 1287 messages  (1-1287).
>> outgoing/y2002  has 9335 messages  (1-9335).
>> outgoing/y2003  has 3909 messages  (1-3909).

> Out of interest, how did you pick what's in each year?  Textually, with
> ‘2002’ appearing in the Date field.  Or as a year and if so was that
> local time, the sender's time, or UTC?  :-)

Well, it's outgoing email, so it's all mine, so it's all in my time zone.

On Jan. 1, I do:
  refile -src +outgoing all +outgoing/y2020

well, I often forget Jan. so, "all" might be adjusted having run "scan"

It would be nice to be able to treat these folders a single folder for
certain operations.

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