gmail vs freebsd

[Emanuel Haupt]

Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at 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