| Jeff Abrahamson on 20 Jan 2005 18:13:25 -0000 |
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > [20 lines, 160 words, 1086 characters] Top characters: -eaosnil > > Hello all, > > I am in the position (as I'm sure many of you are) of having some > mailboxes that grow rapidly out of control. What I'd like to start > doing is archiving them in some sane way, e.g. monthly rotations or > something. I could just write a logrotate script for them, but that > seems like not the best way - I have no idea what would happen if a > delivery was under way when a logrotate run came along. I was thinking > of maybe using a mutt close-hook to rotate all the messages received in > December into a 2004-12 mailbox, and similar handling for others. I am > not sure this is any saner, however (or even really possible), so I am > asking what others do to manage their mail volumes. I found the best solution (so far) for me is to grow comfortable with very large mailboxes. When they start to annoy me, I tag all and save tagged to the archive place. This only happens a couple times a year, though, so it hasn't been worth it to me to find a better solution. I'm not sure how I'd ever recover the time it took me to write a four line script even... -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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