From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 08:46:35 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 DD154106566C for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:46:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ehaupt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx.critical.ch (cl-8.zrh-02.ch.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:1620:f00:7::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579798FC08 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:46:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wiggles.bwns.ch (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mx.critical.ch (8.14.4/8.14.4/critical-1.0) with SMTP id p3F8kWmt025225; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:46:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ehaupt@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:46:32 +0200 From: Emanuel Haupt To: Aryeh Friedman Message-Id: <20110415104632.febdc84a.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 08:46:35 -0000 Aryeh Friedman 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