On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Derek Yarnell wrote: > Just as an aside we archive our root mail (lots of crap) into a cyrus > mailbox and found that past 250k messages it just began to suck at > the client layer. > > What we did was have sieve filter that would be re-generated on a > monthly basis (using sievec) in the account that would filter into a > folder for that month. The only thing was that you would have to > pre-populate the folders (or maybe I am a sieve noob and not aware of > a way that sieve can create the folder if it doesn't exist). > > Anyway this is a pretty good way to deal with large archival > mailboxes. I wrote a script which creates a new folder each month and moves emails into it. This does suck for offline users though (lucky that is not an issue for me). I can send it to you if you like, it uses Python's base imaplib. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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