[kwlug disc.] archiving email

[Sy Ali]

On 3/27/07, Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com> wrote:
> I've got every business email I've ever sent or recieved since about
> 1998 in thunderbird on linux.  While my current method of files/subfiles
> is working well, I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better served by
> starting fresh, or cleaning this up somehow.
>
> What are folks doing in terms of archiving emails or getting them off
> their desktop systems?  Or should I stick to what I'm doing and hope
> that email becomes outdated before my system gets too big :).

I keep my "archived" emails in a sub-folder that I just don't look at.

I then use the quickfile extension[1] to move emails to any arbitrary
destination in my silly chain of folder and sub-folders.

I then forget about the emails.  They've been sorted well enough that
it's easy to find emails later.

Gmail's philosophy is completely backwards.  Spend 1/2 a second to
sort it properly, and then searching is a reasonable experience when
done 10 years later..

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/348/