[Kde-pim] Mail archival and storage format with Akonadi Next

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2014, 11:00:34 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014, 19:40:31 schrieb Jan Kundrát:
> > On Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:24:02 CEST, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Even with an IMAP account I would like to archive old mails to reduce
> > > the
> > > amount of mails stored on the IMAP server.
> > 
> > Why would you like to do that? Are you seeing some actual pain points in
> > performance of your IMAP server when the number of messages goes up? I'm
> > quite sure that the Dovecot people would like to know about them.
> 
> Two reasons:
> 
> 1) For my private mail: I see no need to store more than the recent private
> mails on the server in case someone is successfully at hacking into it.
> 
> 2) For list mail: Storage constraints:
> 
> martin at merkaba:~> du -sh ~/.local/share/local-mail
> 14G     /home/martin/.local/share/local-mail
> martin at merkaba:~> du -sh ~/Backup/Mail-Archiv
> 10G     /home/martin/Backup/Mail-Archiv

Add to that about 950 MiB of mail from the Amiga mail client I used. I want to 
export / import them into KMail / Akonadi at one point. I used YAM there, a 
wonderful client. Fully features like KMail. There is also SimpleMail which is 
more like Trojita :), both free software by the way.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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