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

[robert rottermann]

Hund
thanks a lot
do you know of a mbsync tutorial
Robert
On 11.05.21 09:08, Hund wrote:
> 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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>> *
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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.
>>
>> Working with such a lot of mails is very slow and cumbersome.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Can somebody give me an idea, how to do that?
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>>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> robert
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>> *
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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
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