* Hans du Plooy
I've been following this mailing list since SUSE 8.0 came out, and have kept every single mail. I know that might sound excessive, but having my own copy of at least a piece of "the archives" has helped more than a couple of times when connectivity isn't available.
Currently I have all my mail stashed in ~/Maildir - courier-imap gives me access to it. Nice setup as I can chop&change between mail clients any time I like.
However, the sheer volume of mail is becoming a problem. It's getting slower and slower, searches through mail folders take for ever and max out my CPU for minutes at a time.
I was wondering if there's a better way to store my mail?
I can and do part of the time, handle my own mail, but have taken to directing *all* mailing list to my gmail address. I then fetchmail to local for reading, but label and retain copies of all mail passing thru gamil. Searching for a particular email/subject/thread is much faster on gmail's site than on my own computer (aged 733) and a gig of space is available. If the space is not enough, get more gmail accounts and disburse the delivery of mail lists thru the different accounts. A plus, gmail's spam filtering is better than spamassassin on my local computer. Just a thought, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos