On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:49:38AM +0000, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
# subfolders, everywhere...
Haha that's me - almost. I have a lot of subfolders, one for each online business/shop that I ever interacted with (and separate email alias for each of them!), some of them sorted into subcategories, one for each person I cared to save emails from/to, one for each mailing list I'm on, separate folders for any official/bureaucratic institution, etc., and quite a few (semi-)temporary folders on top of that. Hey, I've just counted them: 295 at the moment! I have also quite a lot of autosave rules in my sieve scripts. Examples:
Shopping/Electronics/Scheissung_de Shopping/Clothes/GryaznyeNoski_ru Shopping/Other/UselessGizmos_com ... Companies/ACME_com ... People/Joe_F_Random ... Lists/dovecot_org ... Official/Office_For_Socks_Colors ... SPAM/Incoming # spam filter puts them here SPAM/Archive # confirmed spam, for mass-training the filter if needed SPAM/Ham # not really spam, move mails here to retrain the filter SPAM/Spam # really spam, move mails here to retrain the filter SPAM/last_chance # one more and I'll block you at the MTA SPAM/stats # automatic emails with filter stats ... Temp/That_newsletter_I_am_not_sure_is_worth_it Temp/Notifications_I_turned_on_to_see_if_they_are_useful_at_all ... and so on
Fortunately, I am an old Unix/C chap and I HATE whitespace in names, but I use a lot of underscores instead, for good measure :-)
Also fortunately, I am my own admin, so I know what to avoid and if I screw something I may blame myself. And I really get the importance of having LAYOUT=fs on my maildirs!
On the other hand, some users just keep everything in INBOX and their client just marks emails as deleted and never expunges... The cur directories grow and grow... Well, I still have a lot of space on an ext4 FS, so I do not care to educate them yet.
-- Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz firstname@lastname.net