<p>I'm using mutt to read my mail through IMAP4_SSL... But currently it lacks of a cache system, so dealing with big folders (~2000) is quite hard for it.</p>
<p>That's why I hacked an archive utility script to better fit with my needs. The original one is <a class="reference" href="http://gray.mine.nu/maildirarchive/mdirarchive-0.1.py">here</a>. The purpose is to move old mails on subtrees of the folder we want to archive, sorted by month.</p>
<p>I mainly added an option relating mail dates comparisons. So now there are two possibilities :</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>believe IMAP dates (appearing as timestamps in beginning of mail filenames) (default behavior)</li>
<li>believe <cite>Date:</cite> Mail header (-m option)</li>
</ul>
<p>Use-case :)</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ ./mdirarchive.py -m respyre
$ tree ~/Maildir/.respyre* -L 1
/home/phil/Maildir/.respyre
|-- courierimapacl
|-- courierimapkeywords
|-- courierimapuiddb
|-- cur
|-- new
`-- tmp
/home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-06
|-- cur
|-- new
`-- tmp
/home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-09
|-- cur
|-- new
`-- tmp
/home/phil/Maildir/.respyre.2003-10
|-- cur
|-- new
`-- tmp
</pre>
<p>There is now a subfolder per month. Check script online help for more options.</p>
<p><a class="reference" href="/static/mdirarchive.py">Download</a></p>
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Comments on article "When IMAP lags with big folders"2004-04-18T03:18:19.000006+01:00phil on When IMAP lags with big folders
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phil
<p>Ask it to the guy who coded the original script. I only added things I needed ..</p>
<p>And I didn't knew <a class="reference" href="http://archivemail.sf.net">http://archivemail.sf.net</a> which have many many (usefull ?) features.. But it could also complete the same kind of job</p>
2004-04-18T02:44:39.000006+01:00Jkx on When IMAP lags with big folders
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Jkx
<p>You used a Minitel to write your code ? You use a really fancy code style for example :</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
if doit:
if (not isdir(target)):
raise "Target '%s' not a directory!" % target
rename("%s/cur/%s" % (folder, file), \
'%s/new/%s' % (target, file))
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