Hello,
after applying all the relevant procmail recipes I could find in the
manuals, I got the following problem, and I'd like to know if and how
you deal with it.
Just about every procmail resource on the net says: "DO start your
procmailrc with a recipe that copies each incoming place in a default
mailbox, BEFORE anything else, just in case"
OK, I saw the reasons for that, and agreed with them.
However, I usually want to keep and archive *all* my personal and business
messages, and, from the mailing lists, only those *really* relevant for
same special reason (Online archives are always there, aren't they?)
The problem is that after one month like this, I have my mail folder
containing about 5 megs of messages and one huge ( >30 meg) file
created and filled by that very first "just in case" recipe.
I can't really tar/compress that much stuff every month, so here goes
the question: what do you make of those mailboxes?
Do you really pile up barrels of (uninteresting) copies every year?
Do you just discard that recipe when you feel procmailrc is OK?
Do you process that mailbox (with what?) to keep just some messages?
Do you open and cancel manually irrelevant stuff once a month?
Any combination of the above?
In other words, how much and how long does this recipe make sense:
:0c:
$HOME/.MAIL/mail.backup
and how do you cope with the huge amount of email it keeps around?
Any feedback is welcome!
Marco
--
[Crash programs] fail because they are based on the theory that, with
nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
Wernher von Braun
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