[kdepim-users] Archive of emails

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 23 Aug 2010 18:15:09 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Hmm. Wouldn't it be easier to store the mail on a local IMAP server? 
> Then you could access the mail from any of the 5 PCs. If you often need 
> references to old emails then archiving those old emails on external 
> media doesn't sound like a good idea because it will take several 
> magnitudes longer to access those archived messages than it would take 
> to access them if they are still stored on the PC (or the IMAP server).
> 
> FWIW, I keep all mail since I started to use mail in KMail. In my sent-
> mail folder there's a message from 1998 (!). I am not noticing any 
> slowdowns due to this.

I don't recall any mention of whether the mail is in mbox or maildir format.  
That would make a difference.

Anne
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