[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up...

[Wayne Dahl]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 20:27, Darin W. Smith wrote:

> > For you Evolution users, is there any way you know of that you can turn
> > an email box you have into an archive that Evolution can use later, but
> > saves hard drive space?  I haven't seen anything like that in the help
> > files for Evolution.
> > 
> 
> Yes.  They are just standard maildir-style files.  For example:
> ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox is the file containing your Inbox mail. 
> All the mail just goes in that one ascii file, just like Netscape or
> anything else.  Easy to import into any mail program.  Don't worry about
> the other files...those are indices that Evolution uses to make loading
> your inbox faster.  They will get generated when you import the
> mailboxes in.
> 
> I am developing the habit of dropping everything older than 2 months
> into a series of "archive" mailboxes, then burning those to CD and
> emptying them out from time to time (like every 6 months).  That really
> helps keep the email from piling up.

That's a great idea.  There are a LOT of emails I get from this list and
especially from the Samba list (you wouldn't BELIEVE the volume of mail
generated on that one!).  They're not all pertinent to any question I
have at this time, but they may apply later, so saving them to CD is a
great idea.  I have a CD-RW, but no blanks I can append a file
to...they're just CD-W disks...once burned, you can't continue the file
on them, if I understand the format correctly.

Thanks again,

Wayne