From kmail-devel  Thu Sep 11 23:14:02 2003
From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:14:02 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: Archiving messages from KMail
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On Friday 12 September 2003 00:47, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 1:59 am, CP Hennessy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I am a happy KMail user.
> > However I have a request ( OK, so why else would I be here :)
> > I have one of my filtered mail boxes which contain over 27000 mails
> > and even though once it's loaded it's fine, it's the amount of
> > memory that it uses to get these which is a bit of a pain ( roughly
> > 64 MB ). Now what I'm think of doing is to implement an "archiving"
> > function.
>
> Already available as open source, free and with no compilation /
> dependencies / binaries (as it's in Perl):
> MHonArc.
> For an example of just one installation using MHonArc, see
> http://www.dclug.org.uk/index.html
> http://www.dclug.org.uk/archive/threads.html
>
> MHonArc will archive messages direct from a KMail directory using a
> simple bash command:
> mhonarc -rcfile mhonarc.mrc -mhpattern '^[^\.]' ~/Mail/folder/cur/
> --outdir ./mhonarc/

In general KMail reacts allergic to other applications messing around=20
with KMail's folders. At worst you risk loosing all messages in a=20
folder.

=46urthermore CP probably doesn't want to give up the possibility to read=20
and search the archive folders with KMail. Why use two frontends (one=20
for current mail and one for archived mail) to access your mail?

At least I haven't yet seen a HTML frontend for a mail archive which is=20
comparable to a mail client. Usually searching sucks, navigation in=20
threads sucks, attachment handling sucks.

Regards,
Ingo

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