Re: searching a way to archive away old emails and still be able to search them

[Hund]

On April 12, 2021 7:26:35 AM GMT+02:00, robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
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>*Hi Colleagues *
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>I am looking for a way to move away some 100’000 emails I collected over the 
>last 15 years, but I would like to still be able to search them.
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>My situation is as such:
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>I get all my email on robert at redcor.ch <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>which I forward 
>to rw at redcor.ch <mailto:rw at redcor.ch>.
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>The mails at robert at redcor.ch <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>I do not touch and leave 
>them as they come.
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>The mails at rw at redcor.ch <mailto:rw at redcor.ch>on the other hand I read, manage, 
>sort into folder, etc.
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>Only when I am searching for some old stuff I go into robert at redcor.ch 
><mailto:robert at redcor.ch>'s mailbox.
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>As you can imagine, the number of emails has become huge. In fact, at the moment 
>I have 162479 unread emails.
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>Working with such a lot of mails is very slow and cumbersome.
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>So I would like to move everything older than about 2 years to an archive 
>outside the mail structure. However, I would still like to be able to search 
>through them similarly to what I do now with Thunderbird.
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>Can somebody give me an idea, how to do that?
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>thanks a lot
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>robert
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I would highly recommend Mbsync for synchronization of IMAP email messages to your local storage and then using Notmuch to tag and search for email messages.

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Hund