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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:27:13 -0300
From:      Alex Moura <alexsm@gmail.com>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gmail vs freebsd
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2011/4/15 Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>

> I for what ever reason do not trust my self to store my critical
> digital information locally and thus store it all on these different
> free services that have a long duration (they or their parent
> organization) such as gmail and other such first gen on line file
> stores for the masses sites... well the issue is I am running out of
> disk room on gmail after 5 years of a no delete policy (10's is 100's
> of thousands emails) and I need to filter out and delete the ones I
> will truely never read from those that I might read and those that for
> a lack of a better phrase "OMG HOW DID I FORGET THIS ONE".... large
> numbers of these can be filtered out by some short of fairly trivial
> regular expression (a DFA that has no sub FA that is a NFA level
> RE's).... I can do this with some fancy download and store your local
> machine as a system in box and use procmail or something to do this...
> for personal reasons we dislike the idea of having download and then
> upload and are looking for a solution that can be completely in
> gmail.... namely we want to sort the archived mail into categories or
> do the same but sorted by sender... we then want to use it by googls
> good ad-hoc search allows us to comb the archieve while getting rid of
> email that will never be dealt with by with a human this requries some
> fancy gmail configs also... I do not expected anyone here to be but
> can anyone point me to a good site to start my studys on advanced
> gmail use
>

Maybe it is possible to achieve what you look for using Gmail's
advanced search operators, filters and labels.

Particularly useful are the Gmail Lab's features:

- SmartLabels
- Nested labels
- Go to label
- Import/Export filters
- Search autocomplete

Pointers:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1075350&topic=1075367&answer=1075381

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/02/gmail-adds-folders-by-improving-label.html

http://lifehacker.com/#!276499/build-advanced-gmail-filters-and-persistent-searches

http://www.gtricks.com/gmail-tricks/gmail-transfer-email-accounts/


Alex



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