Re: [Evolution] How to Archive Email?

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Jeff,

Why don't you try to use filters and labels instead of search folders.
I have an imap account, too. Just create filter rules which label mails
in a certain way, e.g. all mails having Received-Date in 2003 get a
label, called 2003. Then you can create other rules which move mail
according to labels they have. Works very nicely for me. I don't trust
these virtual folders!
Hope that helps.
 
Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 13:23 -0600 schrieb Jeff Nelson:
> Environment: evo 2.26.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
>
> Email storage:
> 1. imap work account with no folders other than INBOX
> 2. maildir account with a hierarchy of folders (675 total). Email gets 
> moved from imap/INBOX to maildir/FOLDER for storage & archiving.
>
> I have years worth of email, going all the way back to 2002. The 
> single-maildir hierarchy is starting to suffer under the weight of 
> 32,000 message files stored in 675 separate folders. At startup, 
> evolution chews up a lot of CPU time and disk I/Os rebuilding the search 
> folders I have created; it takes a long time to shutdown because 
> evolution is "checking folder for consistency". (This seems to be 
> working better now but I still want to proceed.)
>
> What I'd like to do now is archive the email in a new set of maildir 
> folders so I can back it up and then remove it. My thought was to:
>
> 1. create a new email account using maildir storage (one for each year 
> from 2002 to 2008); these are the archive accounts
> 2. create a search folder (one for each year) containing messages sent 
> or received in that year
> 3. select the messages from the search folder and move them to the 
> appropriate archive/INBOX folder.
>
> I am stuck on step 3. Selecting the messages works, but evolution won't 
> move them. I suspect it has to do with the fact that the search folders 
> are virtual, spanning all the maildir accounts.
>
> Is there any way for me to find and archive messages by year from one 
> maildir-based account to another, without having to go through each of 
> the 675 folders?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jeff
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thomas