Certain guidelines need to be followed for CSE Email. You may have received a "Mail Inbox Too Large" warning. You only have a 1meg limit in the mail spool of the mail server. If this happens several days in a row, your email will be moved to your home directory (~/mbox<date>). Mail in your home directory is only limited by your normal disk quota.

You have a few options for managing your email.

Filters

Make use of CSE Services like SpamAssassin or DrWeb (anti-virus). This will reduce your overall inbox size.

Sorting to Folders

Simple sorting of email moves those messages from the Mail Spool to your home directory. Simple cleanup of email to help stay organized.

Procmail

With procmail, you can auto filter to the folders you created above. You can also have it default to the mbox listed below. We have seen some clever procmail recipes to help stay organized. If you are interested in more procmail ideas, do a google search for: procmail recipes. There are many to choose from.

mbox

A common feature of IMAP mail is "mbox". If this file exists, mail is moved from the Mail server spool to ~/mbox in your home directory on a successful IMAP connection. This will greatly help those who consistently receive large mailbox warnings. Your InBox (as called by many IMAP clients) will behave like normal. Simply type "touch ~/mbox" on unix to create that file.

Reading Moved Email

If your email is moved to your home directory (~/mbox<date>), you can treat it like any IMAP folder.
Using an IMAP client (Outlook, Netscape, Evolution, Eudora, etc) you can "subscribe" to that file.

On unix, you can directly read the file:
mutt -f ~/mbox<date>
elm -f ~/mbox<date>

From there, clear out junk email then sort what you want.