On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:06 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > so it's more a year of Fedora mails, in a file, Most definitely. There's a few other big ones, but none are nearly as big as that one. > I has the same problem tens of thousands emails, I evaluate mbox, vs > maildir, decided keep with mbox in separated files, because trying to > rsync that quantity of emails in maildir well seemed in my case take a > long time. A while back I tried comparing mbox to maildir with a staggeringly large number of messages, and found mbox to stay nippy, whereas maildir grinds to a snail's pace, and just gets worse and worse. I'm not trying to keep backup copies, of these, so that issue wouldn't arise for me. > > seems which your only options to separate the mbox are: > > procmail > > but I'm unable to find a procmail recipe to evaluate the original date > field from a email to construct a mailbox in the format > fedora_year_month/ I figured on keeping them all in one folder, rather than separately archiving different periods. So I ought to be able to run some commands that just move *everything* in mbox here over to maildir there? > and will take hours, but will be automatic I do use dovecot. I'm not against it spending ages to complete, so long as it actually does, and doesn't need me to manage it along the way. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
