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Re: How to organize mail in folders?



On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:05:10PM -0300, Angel Olivera wrote:
> On Wed 11.Jul.07 09:21, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> [snip]
> >I also have an fcc-hook set so that mail I send to mailing lists is not 
> >saved (instead, I receive copies from the lists, so that I know it was 
> >successfully posted).
> 
> Our setup is almost identical, with this exception. I am currently 
> saving my outgoing messages in my "Sent" folder, which is huge and I 
> have to archive into a bzipped mbox in order for it not to become a 
> problem.

Not sure if this helps, but I organize all my mail chronologically, like
this:

#the following sets the default folder to save
#mail to as in-2003-04 if the current month is 2003-04
save-hook .* +"in-`date '+%Y-%m'`"

#the following sets the default folder to save
#mail to as out-2003-04 if the current month is 2003-04
#i.e. it specifies a sent mail folder
set record="=out-`date '+%Y-%m'`"

The result, at least for me, is that the folder sizes stay in check.

Cheers,
David