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

[Dave Stevens]

recoll is pretty good too and very fast

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On Wednesday 12/05/2021 at 2:47 pm, Mike Marchywka  wrote:
> I had a similar problem and ended up writing my own multithreaded 
> downloader called "mikemail."
> It gets a list of all the UUID's or whatever they are called and then 
> gets each message and keeps
> track of successes and failures per message. So, it is pretty easy to 
> restart and generally disruption
> tolerant. I've used it a few times now on homtail and yahoo and AFAICT 
> it gets
> everything eventually. It starts a huge number of connections but most 
> are rejected and then
> goes along with maybe 1- or so. You can control c it any time and it 
> seems to restart ok.
> Gets attachments too but my naming conventions need work.
>
> I like it because it is now a base for other mail related tasks but 
> would take effort to
> make into a releasable product.
>
> note new address
> Mike Marchywka 306 Charles Cox Drive Canton, GA 30115
> 2295 Collinworth  Drive Marietta GA 30062.  formerly 487 Salem Woods 
> Drive Marietta GA 30067 404-788-1216 (C)<- leave message 989-348-4796 
> (P)<- emergency
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf 
> of robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:24 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions; Hund
> Subject: Re: searching a way to archive away old emails and still be 
> able to search them
>
> 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:
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> *Hi Colleagues *
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> My situation is as such:
>>>
>>> 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>.
>>>
>>> The mails at robert at redcor.ch <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>I do not touch 
>>> and leave
>>> them as they come.
>>>
>>>
>>> The mails at rw at redcor.ch <mailto:rw at redcor.ch>on the other hand I 
>>> read, manage,
>>> sort into folder, etc.
>>>
>>> Only when I am searching for some old stuff I go into robert at redcor.ch
>>> <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>'s mailbox.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks a lot
>>>
>>> robert
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Hund
>>
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