searching a way to archive away old emails and still be able to search them

[Mike Marchywka]

I had a similar problem and ended up writing my own multithreaded downloader called "mikemail."
It gets a list of all the UUID's or whatever they are called and then gets each message and keeps
track of successes and failures per message. So, it is pretty easy to restart and generally disruption
tolerant. I've used it a few times now on homtail and yahoo and AFAICT it gets
everything eventually. It starts a huge number of connections but most are rejected and then
goes along with maybe 1- or so. You can control c it any time and it seems to restart ok.
Gets attachments too but my naming conventions need work. 

I like it because it is now a base for other mail related tasks but would take effort to
make into a releasable product. 

note new address
 Mike Marchywka 306 Charles Cox Drive Canton, GA 30115
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From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:24 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions; Hund
Subject: Re: searching a way to archive away old emails and still be able to search them

Hund
thanks a lot
do you know of a mbsync tutorial
Robert
On 11.05.21 09:08, Hund wrote:
> On April 12, 2021 7:26:35 AM GMT+02:00, robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
>> **
>>
>> *Hi Colleagues *
>>
>> *
>>
>> I am looking for a way to move away some 100’000 emails I collected over the
>> last 15 years, but I would like to still be able to search them.
>>
>>
>> My situation is as such:
>>
>> I get all my email on robert at redcor.ch <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>which I forward
>> to rw at redcor.ch <mailto:rw at redcor.ch>.
>>
>> The mails at robert at redcor.ch <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>I do not touch and leave
>> them as they come.
>>
>>
>> The mails at rw at redcor.ch <mailto:rw at redcor.ch>on the other hand I read, manage,
>> sort into folder, etc.
>>
>> Only when I am searching for some old stuff I go into robert at redcor.ch
>> <mailto:robert at redcor.ch>'s mailbox.
>>
>>
>> As you can imagine, the number of emails has become huge. In fact, at the moment
>> I have 162479 unread emails.
>>
>> Working with such a lot of mails is very slow and cumbersome.
>>
>> So I would like to move everything older than about 2 years to an archive
>> outside the mail structure. However, I would still like to be able to search
>> through them similarly to what I do now with Thunderbird.
>>
>>
>> Can somebody give me an idea, how to do that?
>>
>>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> robert
>>
>> *
>>
> I would highly recommend Mbsync for synchronization of IMAP email messages to your local storage and then using Notmuch to tag and search for email messages.
>
> --
> Hund
>



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