[MlMt] giving up - MailMate crash - won't synchronize

[Thomas Floeren]

> On 13 May 2015, at 18:12, Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca> wrote:
> 
> somewhere in the region of 5 million messages between them and something like 25,000 in the combined inbox


Holy cow, I’m seriously impressed! I’ve never, not even remotely, thought of using my mail client (or an imap box for the matter) as a persistent document storage.

No matter which mail client or mail box, I’m moving *out* messages older than 12 months, either to the folder of the project they are related to, or otherwise to my generic mail archive on disk.

I rarely have the need to reply to a mail older than 1 year, and when it really happens I can easily retrieve that mail on disk. What is the advantage of storing tens of thousands of years-old mails in the database of the email client, or in an imap box?

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Tom