From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 11:53:35 MDT
O'Regan, Emlyn writes:
> Problem is, I can't bring myself to actually delete e-mails. Even with
> those which appear devoid of content, there somehow seems less content
> if the message is deleted. Perhaps this is like the difference between 0
> and NULL.
No problem. Simply substitute the /dev/null line by some file name,
e.g. plonk. All rejected posts will then go to $MAILDIR/plonk, where you
can periodically review them to acertain you didn't miss anything
critical.
> I am finding, however, that I am having to run searches to find past
> e-mails to which I would like to respond/refer, because the shear volume
> has rendered my vertical scroll bar useless. I've got to find a way
> around this, because I'm using MSExchange, and the find mechanism is
> severly limited*.
I'm using VM under XEmacs 20.4. At current INBOX size approaching 10 k
mails (I have 160 MBytes RAM, though), XEmacs search mechanism is
still adequate. There is an XEmacs for Windows as well, btw.
I periodically abandon INBOXes when they grow too big to handle. My
next project (amongst many) is converting them with critmail, and
indexing them with a full-text search engine such as webglimpse or
htdig.
'gene
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