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<p dir="auto">On 1 Jan 2019, at 16:25, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 1 Jan 2019, at 15:48, Randy Bush wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">so my SO keeps all sent mail etc. the ~/mail/Sent folder has 97,000<br>
messages going back to 2000 or so. mailmate is starting to choke and<br>
fail every few days.</p>
<p dir="auto">if she creates ~/mail/old/Sent mailmate will still see and have to<br>
deal with it.</p>
<p dir="auto">how are folk dealing with this?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Split them up into archival mailboxes by date and/or correspondents.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I guess by date might work. I used to keep them by project and some other topics (e.g., kids' schools). But that was easier with Nostalgy, which let me seed a completion list of email boxes as the place to save, rather than the way rules just guess, and I don't have any way of knowing where my archive rules have put emails. I mean, I know I can look in the <em>intended</em> destination, but I don't have time to do that all the time, and if the rule does <em>not</em> do what I expect, then I have to go through a searching rigamarole.</p>
<p dir="auto">That's ok -- I think the MailMate way is to use search instead of folder-ing, but it takes some getting used to.</p>
<p dir="auto">R</p>
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