Hi Lawrence,
On 20 July 2000 at 15:05:47 GMT -0400 (which was 20:05 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "Archiving old mail messages":
LK> I have tried exporting the messages but that gave me hundreds of
LK> individual message files cryptically numbered 1 ... infinity - not
LK> a good plan.
You used the wrong option :-). The export to Unix maibox format is
more like what you are looking for. It will save the messages to a
plain text single file which can be compressed for long term storage.
LK> What have users been doing (if anything) to off-load old messages
LK> while still being able to view them, if necessary?
I keep them all and have 64k+ in my message base at present. IMHO The
best method for handling high volume folders to have come up so far is
to have a main and archive folder and let a filter copy incoming mail
to both. Give the "main" folder a size or time limit to keep the size
down. This makes it easy to browse "current" mail yet still have an
easily accessible archive.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
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