Avoiding the "huge INBOX of death"

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+Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:42:05 +0200\r
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+Subject: Avoiding the "huge INBOX of death"\r
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+Hello fellow notmuchers,\r
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+I am a longtime "classic" mutt user, willing to switch to a notmuch-based\r
+solution (probably neomutt). However, as far as I understand, I will have to\r
+deal with a "huge INBOX of death", as put by Anarcat in a recent blog post [1],\r
+that when all emails remain in a single maildir, which may the become very\r
+large. \r
+\r
+I would like to avoid this, for quota reasons on my work imap server first, and\r
+also because I sometimes have to use webmail access, with poor searching\r
+capabilities.\r
+\r
+Thus, I think I need to have my emails sorted into maildir folders according to\r
+the notmuch tags. Namely, emails with the "inbox" tag should stay in the INBOX\r
+maildir, those with "archive" should be moved to Archives (all synchronized with\r
+the server). As a bonus, it would be great to have a few more features, like\r
+"mails in Archives older than 6 months are moved to Archives/<year>" (kept\r
+locally and not stored on the server).\r
+\r
+As far as I understand, "afew" and its MailMover feature could be useful for my\r
+case, but it does not seem currently maintained (plus, very few mentions of it\r
+on the notmuch archives) and Michael Turquette said it's buggy [2], so I would\r
+like more feedback to be sure before letting it mess with my maildir.\r
+\r
+Another tool that could be useful is the "maildir-notmuch-sync" script written\r
+by Ethan Schoonover and adapted by Michael Turquette [3]. However, it seems\r
+dedicated to handling the synchronization of Gmail labels, not a generic imap\r
+server hierarchy.\r
+\r
+Perhaps there is another solution to deal with this in a notmuch-based setup, I\r
+would very much like any of your feedback.\r
+\r
+[1]: https://anarc.at/blog/2016-05-12-email-setup/\r
+[2]: http://deferred.io/2016/01/17/state-of-the-dotfiles.html\r
+[3]: http://deferred.io/2016/01/18/notmuch-tags-gmail-labels-bidirectional-sync.html\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Raphaël Fournier-S'niehotta\r
+http://raphael.fournier-sniehotta.fr/apropos\r
+\r