get very large. Some have more than 2,500 messages and I'm beginning to think that I should archive messages older than some date. However, is it necessary to do this? Does having so many messages slow the operation of KMail?
You would notice if they did. You can easily archive mail using various basic unix commands. Accessing archived mail with any modern mail client like kmail is essentially impossible, as none of them bothers to display mail from other than its own directory (GUI is nice, but some things are pretty braindead). grepmail is ideal for searching through archived mail if you archive in mbox format (which kmail or most/any new mail client can't handle properly). If you stick your mail into tar files you're out of luck searching through them without unpacking the lot first. Once you have found the mail from your archive which you want to look at, stuff them somehow into kmails Mail folder (default ~/Mail) *and* persuade kmail to have a look at it. So far it's been too dim to notice any new folders appearing, so most likely you'll have to quit and restart it. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.