Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1982 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz said the following on 11/14/2008 09:21 PM:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 18:00, Anton Aylward wrote:
> > On teh basis of this thread I tried KMail.
> > I'm a long time T'Bird user and the one thing that p****es me off is
> > that it drags in Gnome stuff.  OK, so call me a purist - I don't
> > care.
> >
> > Well, I know I can juggle fonts to get over some of the ugliness,
> > I've done that with T'bird too.  Some things, like threading, are
> > much nicer. Yes, lots of configurable, but the the one thing that I
> > really like about T'Bird I can't find in KMail.
> >
> > Its that pull-down that limits the messages to 'recent', 'last week',
> > last month' -- or you can add more,  I've done for T'Bird.  Its an
> > essential so I don't drown in mail.
> >
> > Is is there but somewhere I couldn't find it or it is just not
> > implemented?
>
> If it is, I'm not aware of it.
>
> However, even when you devote a separate folder to each mailing list to 
> which you're subscribed, you cannot let them accumulate messages 
> indefinitely. I roll old list (folder) content over into archive (sub-) 
> folders with date-stamped names on intervals determined by the level of 
> activity of the list. For lists as active as, say, openSUSE, it's 
> monthly. Others are bimonthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually. I 
> have several that have not yet accumulated enough postings over four 
> and a half years (the epoch of my last catastrophe (*)) to deserve an 
> archive folder.

I do that too; I even have a separate IMAP server (named ARCHIVE,
wouldn't you know!) for that.

But I don't always get to deal with my mail every day, and some items I
make as one of a number of 'todo' categories.  My normal practice is to
start with "recent" (== last 24 hours) then gradually expand the scope.
Much of that might involve heavy deletion or moving to subject specific
 folders.

> If such a strategy were automated, I'd use it. But simply hiding from 
> sight messages older than some predefined threshold does not strike me 
> as a good idea.

Its not a permanent hiding, its part of a work-flow.  Deal with the
'now' and ignore the 'let the blighters wait' (LBW in case you play
cricket) until the immediate/urgent has been dealt with.

T'Bird's tagging also comes into play.  Some tagging is done by procmail
as they arrive, but some has to be done after inspection.


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