From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 22:52:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF9A1065672 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexsm@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB848FC0C for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so3448052bwz.13 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:52:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=zCZOnNRA9UTjYatGYhO8bot353xorISdzlwaXEyC/ek=; b=mI/pq246R4GL+5s8LDgDAIynwYYFe/Cy546s3lDequuhjduwOYdUpU0A6ZV6m6OaqQ JvOegJ8f9Du4UpWSuFzkbBFS/Sw+Y9dnhm9zp9GXPQxC/oeidHP26xPuKTZJFamtZ887 NYCSly7sk30GjgCi20S5nOSh+A6GKINsYgwbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=CWAP17lbL1otgA1VxNsEKi1dsCojXwv/pRkWZvMnCijn1Y/MfLsQsGBOrI1rxlJbig aoaRJB+iiVDHCiTD9Q2pzEsklg8EX0YJawnD1HChH69vyxV19ZuditOZ5vpFiqTOXdYl Jo44B2eSVpqRxor0gtFLq7eSj23frniAocoY8= Received: by 10.204.14.137 with SMTP id g9mr1942518bka.134.1302906453135; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:27:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.100.134 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:27:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Alex Moura Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:27:13 -0300 Message-ID: To: Aryeh Friedman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD chat Subject: Re: gmail vs freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:52:13 -0000 2011/4/15 Aryeh Friedman > 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