[email protected] writes: > I am way beyond being able to sort through mail to decide what > to keep. I just automatically archive everything on delivery > and keep per-month folders. Things I need to deal with stay in > the INBOX and get periodically flushed when it gets too big. > > It is much less work to just archive everything and dig things > out as needed. It's frequently been a surprise what mail was > needed from the archive. Not necessarily stuff I would have > saved if I manually archiving.
I personally use the term "archiving" to mean saving away mail without making any decisions about what to keep. VM's use of "archiving" is a bit different. `vm-auto-archive-messages' saves messages using `vm-auto-folder-alist' (which is also used for manual saving). So, it is closer to saving than archiving. > The volume has gotten absurd, especially when I have to work on > grants with people who insist on e-mailing around Word documents > as a work flow. My archive for December is approaching a > gigabyte :-( The solution for that problem is to save away attachments and delete them from the mbox. vm-rfaddons has a function called `vm-mime-auto-save-all-attachments' which can be invoked automatically from `message-arrived-hook'. Of course, you can invoke it manually as well. If you get a lot of attachments, you should definitely look into this solution. > What I would really like is the ability to do start a search on > the archive within vm, get back a list of hits in something > similar to a summary buffer and then look through them with vm > as if normal email. > > Current thinking is that running a private imap server on top of > my mail archive might be an approach. That is definitely the right strategy. But, unfortunately, I don't yet have a front-end for IMAP search implemented in VM. It won't be before the summer that I can get to it, because things like this need bigger blocks of time However, there is also the solution of mairix which was mentioned a couple of times in this thread. It works with local folders. And, there is a VM front-end to it. If somebody can experiment with mairix and give me a section to include in the info file, that will be great! Cheers, Uday
