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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Archiving messages from KMail
From:       "Carsten Burghardt" <cb () magic-shop ! de>
Date:       2003-09-12 10:57:50
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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
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