I keep a separate ARCHIVE/YYYY-MM/ namespace for old mail and move the mail on the first of the month. That way most clients don't load it, but I can get to them. I keep one box per mailing list and other "things".
So, yes, I can see multi-hundreds of folders.
thebighonker.lerctr.org /home/ler/MAIL-ARCHIVE $ find . -type d | grep -v .imap |wc -l 1958 thebighonker.lerctr.org /home/ler/MAIL-ARCHIVE $
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:35 AM, @lbutlr kremels@kreme.com wrote:
On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl tanstaafl@libertytrek.org wrote:
I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from the human side. How do you find anything?
I can see it, though I think it’s excessive.
List Mail Dovecot 2011-06 2011-07 2011-08 … 2016-11 Postfix 2001-09 2001-10 … 2016-11
(repeat for a hundred lists. Add folders for each friend or family member. Add folders for ever domain that sends mail. It’s certainly possible, and someone might even convince themselves it’s ‘organized’.)
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