Geoff Arnold's Blog

Cleaning the Augean stables Just finished the periodic task of cleaning up my email. I'm on the Edgemail pilot, and there's a limit of 500MB per account. I'm glad to accept that restriction in exchange for the convenience of being able to access my mail from anywhere, inside or outside of the Sun corporate network. My mail client (Mail.app on my 12" PowerBook) barely skips a beat when I connect to any network: as long as SSL-secured IMAP and SMTP can reach the dual-homed server pool, it all just keeps working. I tend to clean up whenever my mailbox goes over 400MB, just in case someone dumps a bunch of multi-megabyte attachments on me. (We have plenty of tools for sharing stuff without doing that - I prefer Twiki - but some people never learn.) After archiving some ancient curios to a local folder on my laptop, and deleting stuff associated with past lives and projects, I'm back down to 350MB. For now. (2004-06-23 08:45:33.0) Permalink Comments [2]

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Geoff, I have a script that will convert the maildir file formats into mbox files if you would like. I found that when I archived off mail I wanted it stored in my home dir (long term storage, not edge accessible). So I wrote up the little script to convert it all over. dl

Posted by Dan Lacher on June 23, 2004 at 09:14 AM PDT #

Thanks, but I don't need mbox format. I'm just creating local folders on my Mac and dragging messages into them. That way I can still use Mail.app's search functions to find stuff in my Edge IMAP folders and in my local cache. (Actually I keep all of my IMAP stuff cached for offline access anyway.)

Posted by Geoff Arnold on June 23, 2004 at 11:19 AM PDT #