I am planning on a permanent solution... but it's not something that will be done overnight sorry to say. To make it so it's not limited to one category and date period as now takes some work. The difference between searching <10K messages and 100K+ messages with any efficiency is pretty big. I'm also making the archival from the main database automatic so it won't be an issue every year. Give me a little time, it's getting there.
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