Re: [OT] Re: [Evolution] strategies for handling lots of mail

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 19:01 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> В сб, 2005-06-25 в 14:51 +0800, Not Zed написа:
>
> > Offtopic, i'm just curious ... How can you possibly have (and manage -
> > and have time left over to do anything other than move mails around)
> > 2000 folders of critical mail?
>
> I couldn't find another way, as 99.95% of the business people send
> crippled mail, break threads, don't respect subjects, etc. Most of them
> also think that an e-mail should look like their company headed paper
> that they had in the 70's. Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are the first in
> my hate list, but the main issue is lack of culture among the corporate
> users. It is impossible to sort efficiently such messages, even with
> Evo...
>
> > On a more important note, how many total messages is that?  And how many
> > vfolders do you have?
>
> Approximately 30,000 messages in ~1.5 GB disk space (there are
> attachments, mainly scanned documents). I have 8 vFolders, not much, but
> enough for my case.

Oh, "bugger all", i've got 250K odd messages here.  Just a lot fewer
folders.

> > I've been radically redesigning the way mail information is stored and I
> > guess I need to make sure it scales well this far and beyond.
>
> I don't know about the new features in CVS, but I'm pretty happy with
> the present state (all my colleagues as well).

Well, "redesign" means ... well, redesign.   i.e. not the same no more.

I guess we'll see how it goes once its out there.