Re: [Evolution] strategies for handling lots of mail

[Yavor Doganov <yavor doganov org>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:05:16PM -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote:
 
> I'm just switching to evolution, and am interested in reasonable
> strategies for handling a large amount of email. 

Great! Perhaps there are many different strategies that vary depending
on the particular requirements.

> I receive 100 messages a day before deleting spam

This is _not_ large amount of mail :-)

> Currently I use fetchmail to dump the mail into MH-style directories,
> which evolution sees as MH folders.

I also use fetchmail, but it delivers the mail to my local MTA, e.g.
local mail spool (/var/mail/$USER).
 
> What other strategies do people suggest?

There is no exact solution that'll fit to everyone. Let me tell you what
I'm doing. I have more than 2000 folders and sub/subfolders and it takes
~5 min to start Evo on a relevantly powerfull machine (PIV 3000 MHz/512
MB RAM), but as in your case, my data is crucial and I need it, I must
have access to messages sent/received 2-3 years ago. I receive
everything in my Inbox as it is very easy and fast to search for recent
messages. Once a week (or fortnightly) I sort the mail manually in the
relevant folders. Additionally, I've several vFolders with different
filters: for example mail from a specific sender that is very important,
etc. As sometimes I need special and specific searches, I have one
vFolder "on_the_fly", which searches all local folders based on how I
configure it. Thus if I need now to find all messages containing "Port
Ravenna" I'm just setting the filter and Evo indexes all folders.

I don't think that there's any other e-mail client in the world that is
capable of doing this. In fact, the strategies/possibilities are
countless.

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Regards,
Yavor Doganov                   JID: doganov jabber minus273 org
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