Delete emails?

[allan]

Hi guys,

I was wondering, what is the norm in keeping mail? I have been running my own email on my server box under my desk for years, and the collection of thousands of mails has become big... Too big for many mail-reader clients to operate at full speed (Mozilla Thunderbird is slow when opening my mailbox, and my webmail application almost crashes when trying).

Is it considered normal to keep many-year old mail, or am i expected to delete old mail? I like keeping old messages for the record, and going back now and sorting out and deleting would take a rediculesly long time.

Is the IMAP protocol really not designed to be able to handle a few thousand mails?

What do you guys do?

[mark]

After I 'feel' like I have to many, I just save them to a storage folder. They usually don't get looked at again.

DL

[rjz]

Some companies and gov/edu places have policys fopr thjis. It's sed to show what people have done or for other tracking purposes.

[egrath]

Hi,

personally i handle keeping old mails using a .PST Outlook Archive File. About every 3 to 4 Months i move the Mails from the Exchange Server to this file - which has now grown to about 3 Gigs and contains at least 100.000 Mails. No problems with this setup for a few years.

Egon