On Friday 13 August 2004 11:05, John Satherley wrote:
Hi I'm using KMail, KDE 3.2.3 and SuSE8.1. My mail folders are now starting to 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? I can't say I've noticed a slowing down but then the folders grow very slowly. If archiving is recommended then I'd still like to be able to access the archived folders/message with KMail in the easiest possible way. Is there are recommended way to do such archiving? Cheers John Satherley
Hi John, I don't know if this slows down kmail but it sure fills up my home directory. There was an archive-and-compact script once, but on use I found that little practical. I do it the quick-and-dirty way: 1) when I find the Mail directory too big, I copy it to another partition, then tar-gz-it and burn it to a CD. 2) I then delete every mail that I don't feel to be important to keep (I keep some mails with passwords or serial numbers even if they have been archived In the (rare) case where I find out I'm missing a message, I rename Mail to Mail.old, un-tar-gz the old directory and copy it in the home directory, get the mail I was looking for, delete the directory and rename Mail.old to Mail. As I said, this is not very elegant but it's efficient, at least for me. Thierry -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein