From kmail-devel Fri Sep 12 10:57:50 2003 From: "Carsten Burghardt" Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:57:50 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: Archiving messages from KMail X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=106336457711243 Ingo Klöcker sagte: > 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 > with KMail's folders. At worst you risk loosing all messages in a > folder. > > Furthermore CP probably doesn't want to give up the possibility to read > and search the archive folders with KMail. Why use two frontends (one > 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 > comparable to a mail client. Usually searching sucks, navigation in > threads sucks, attachment handling sucks. That's the good point of imap: you can use Squirrelmail which is definitely very handy. I can write emails from work like this one ;-) -- Carsten Burghardt PGP: http://www.magic-shop.de/Carsten_Burghardt.asc _______________________________________________ KMail Developers mailing list kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail