[MLB-WIRELESS] OT: One for the MUA experts.

[Tyson Clugg]

Steven Haigh wrote:

> I'm looking for a new mail client... I'm currently using Outlook Express,
> and found it to work well, however I require a few other features that OE
> does not include...
>
> What I'm looking for is a MUA with:
>
> 1) IMAP support. Outlook Express handles IMAP folders with 14000+ emails
> without a problem. Outlook XP becomes really sluggish on these folders.
> it seems the reasonable limit for Outlook XP is about 500 messages in a
> folder, anything else and I click "Mark as read" and come back in a few
> minutes... Mozilla handles this fine, however lacks other points
> discussed here.

If you're trying to keep *all* melbwireles at wireless.org.au posts in one
folder, I'd suggest you don't because the IMAP "list" command will take a
long time to run.  I keep seperate archives per month, and only subscribe
to current folders.  Folders are in the format "MelbWireless YYYY-MM" with a
symlink to the current archive.

My .procmailrc has the following entry:
    :0:
    * ^Sender: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
    mail/MelbWireless

I've written a small script (run monthly from cron) to create the new
folder and rotate a symlink to the current archive:
    #!/bin/bash
    MAIL=~/mail
    NOW=`date +MelbWireless\ %Y-%m`
    cd "${MAIL}"
    [ -r "${NOW}" ] || touch "${NOW}"
    ln --force --symbolic "${NOW}" "MelbWireless"

My list of IMAP folders is as follows:
           20 Aug  1 00:00 MelbWireless -> MelbWireless 2003-08
       709238 Nov 13  2002 MelbWireless 2001-08
       732819 Nov 13  2002 MelbWireless 2001-09
      1854133 Nov 13  2002 MelbWireless 2001-10
...snip...
      1573626 Jul 17 17:53 MelbWireless 2003-06
      1208267 Aug  1 11:12 MelbWireless 2003-07
       278074 Aug 12 12:02 MelbWireless 2003-08

Much easier on the bandwidth than one big archive...

Cheers,
Tyson.


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