On Sunday 31 March 2019 21:23:58 Mike Bird wrote:

> 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
>
This works too, except that new messages written to this top level 
directory are always unread.  Even though there are only 6 or 7 messages 
in cur, that directory is 2641920 bytes long. ISTR that ext4 has a 
truncate in place utility, but cannot now recall its name.

Is this a useable clue? What I've just now done using mc, is to move 
those messages to tmp, delete cur, then make a new cur, and move the 
messages back to cur.  And I will now restart kmail.

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