On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:> I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to > 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from > the human side. How do you find anything?I can see it, though I think it?s excessive. List Mail Dovecot 2011-06 2011-07 2011-08 ? 2016-11 Postfix 2001-09 2001-10 ? 2016-11 (repeat for a hundred lists. Add folders for each friend or family member. Add folders for ever domain that sends mail. It?s certainly possible, and someone might even convince themselves it?s ?organized?.)
I keep a separate ARCHIVE/YYYY-MM/ namespace for old mail and move
the mail on the first of the month. That way most clients don't load it,
but
I can get to them. I keep one box per mailing list and other
"things".
So, yes, I can see multi-hundreds of folders.
thebighonker.lerctr.org /home/ler/MAIL-ARCHIVE $ find . -type d | grep -v
.imap |wc -l
1958
thebighonker.lerctr.org /home/ler/MAIL-ARCHIVE $
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:35 AM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org>
wrote:
> > I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close
to
> > 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from
> > the human side. How do you find anything?
>
> I can see it, though I think it?s excessive.
>
> List Mail
> Dovecot
> 2011-06
> 2011-07
> 2011-08
> ?
> 2016-11
> Postfix
> 2001-09
> 2001-10
> ?
> 2016-11
>
> (repeat for a hundred lists. Add folders for each friend or family member.
> Add folders for ever domain that sends mail. It?s certainly possible, and
> someone might even convince themselves it?s ?organized?.)
>
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On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote:> I keep a separate ARCHIVE/YYYY-MM/ namespace for old mail and move > the mail on the first of the month. That way most clients don't load it, > but > I can get to them. I keep one box per mailing list and other "things?.WhenI did that I would combine every year into a single year folder and only keep the last 3-4 months in separate folders.
On 11/22/2016 10:35 AM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: >> I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to >> 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from >> the human side. How do you find anything?> I can see it, though I think it?s excessive. > > List Mail > Dovecot > 2011-06 > 2011-07 > 2011-08<snip> Like I said, I simply don't see it. There is simply zero reason to split things up like this. It is trivial to limit your view to just what you want with filters or just plain sorting (by date in this case). Just not enough bang for the buck. Again, this is jut my opinion, if this makes someone else feel better/more organized or whatever, obviously they are free to have as many folders as they want.
On 11/22/2016 11:05 AM, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote:> I keep a separate ARCHIVE/YYYY-MM/ namespace for old mail and move > the mail on the first of the month. That way most clients don't load it, > but I can get to them. I keep one box per mailing list and other "things".I keep a single 'Old Mail' folder, where I file anything that I want to keep but doesn't fit into any of my 20 or 30 specific folders I've created.> So, yes, I can see multi-hundreds of folders.Again, I can't, it is much easier, in my opinion, to only have to search a single folder, rather than try to figure out which folder something is more likely to be in - but whatever works for you...
Anyone using the default (TB) approach /Archive/YYYY-MM will eventually meet the problem of having too many folders and a slow service. The alternative, for the user, is to write their own filters. From the server side, it would be useful if dovecot would filter certain e-mails automatically. For example, it could move any e-mail from "dovecot at dovecot.org" into /Lists/dovecot at dovecot_org/. On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Tanstaafl <'tanstaafl at libertytrek.org'> wrote: On 11/22/2016 10:35 AM, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: >> I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to >> 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from >> the human side. How do you find anything?> I can see it, though I think it?s excessive. > > List Mail > Dovecot > 2011-06 > 2011-07 > 2011-08<snip> Like I said, I simply don't see it. There is simply zero reason to split things up like this. It is trivial to limit your view to just what you want with filters or just plain sorting (by date in this case). Just not enough bang for the buck. Again, this is jut my opinion, if this makes someone else feel better/more organized or whatever, obviously they are free to have as many folders as they want.