On Sunday 31 March 2019 21:23:58 Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun March 31 2019 18:08:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ok, I've used kmail to make new folders named 2001, yadda yadda. > > Then used kmail to move, sorted by date, each year into its subdir. > > > > And I've adjusted that particular filter to put new messages in > > emc/2019, which I'll obviously have to fix next new years. > > > > Thats working well and kmail has regained much of its former > > snappiness. > > > > Just one problem remains. How do I get rid of the old years in the > > lefthand folder display, its now about 20 names taller than the > > screen. > > Hi Gene, > > It's probably more convenient to have new messages come into the > top-level emc folder rather than emc/2019. That way you don't have to > change the filter each year. And you can click on the [-] to hide the > subfolders. > > --Mike > This works too, except that new messages written to this top level directory are always unread. Even though there are only 6 or 7 messages in cur, that directory is 2641920 bytes long. ISTR that ext4 has a truncate in place utility, but cannot now recall its name. Is this a useable clue? What I've just now done using mc, is to move those messages to tmp, delete cur, then make a new cur, and move the messages back to cur. And I will now restart kmail. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
