On Sun March 31 2019 18:08:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > Ok, I've used kmail to make new folders named 2001, yadda yadda. > Then used kmail to move, sorted by date, each year into its subdir. > > And I've adjusted that particular filter to put new messages in emc/2019, > which I'll obviously have to fix next new years. > > Thats working well and kmail has regained much of its former snappiness. > > Just one problem remains. How do I get rid of the old years in the > lefthand folder display, its now about 20 names taller than the screen. Hi Gene, It's probably more convenient to have new messages come into the top-level emc folder rather than emc/2019. That way you don't have to change the filter each year. And you can click on the [-] to hide the subfolders. --Mike