Incoming from S.D.A.:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000 or thereabouts, James Sinnamon wrote:
> >
> > My ${HOME}/Mail directory is currently nearly 350 Megs in size.
> > A lot of it is due to high volume mailing lists such as debian-user
> > (48 Meg so far), and this can only get much worse as I join more
> > and more high volume lists.
> >
> > So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail
> > folders? Perhaps 'mutt' is the way to go?
Though I use and recommend mutt, it has little to do with this problem.
> What I do, is use a nice little utility called "archivemail" and set it up via
> CRON to archive my mail folders (mbox) at least once a month. Then I use another
> utility called "grepmail" which can search both my active mboxes and the
> compressed archived mail.
I do all that too. However, for the OP, it might be simpler to just
not archive mailing list mail. You're duplicating lists.debian.org.
If it's all out there in a searchable archive, why do you also need it
on your box?
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