[LBo] Archiving email messages

[Anita Lewis]

On 01/18/2007 10:50 AM Dave Lerner wrote:
> I have a lot of email messages (a few hundred MB) I've saved over the
> years.  Most of them I rarely need to look at, but occasionally I need
> to refer to an old message I sent or received.

> 

I use Outlook at work too, and I know what you mean about the archive
mail.  Sometimes I have to open up that file to look at old mail, but
rarely.  I archive it maybe once a year.  I keep almost all my Outlook
mail on my computer rather than on the Exchange server, but the
archiving part is the same.

At home I use Thunderbird. I use archmbox maybe once a year. Then I use
mutt when I need to go look  for something.  The archived mail is in a
separate directory in my document partition called mail-backup.  Since I
so rarely need to see it, that works for me.

I use the compression for archmbox, because mutt will read gzipped
files.  I don't really use mutt to read mail normally. I think I could
also set it up so that Thunderbird would contain my archive folder.  Not
sure about the gzip file reading there.

http://adc-archmbox.sourceforge.net/  There is a deb file; so you should
be able to get it in synaptic or apt-get.  Then make a script to put in
your ~/bin directory and give it a name that will trigger your memory
for what it is called since you will probably use it so seldom.

Anita