Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:46:32 +0200 From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: gmail vs freebsd Message-ID: <20110415104632.febdc84a.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinhawW0AL79iB_65sJwB2an-9fjFQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTinhawW0AL79iB_65sJwB2an-9fjFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Gmail offers standard IMAP - you might be able to script something with ports/mail/imaptools. Emanuel
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