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Yeah, one problem with our glorious information age is that few have attempted to suitably archieve it. A reasonably publicized source with a good index would help a lot of people, particularily those with legacy equipment. bs On 2002年9月29日, zeek wrote:I have years of email backups on a sundry of cdrom, floppy, and numerous
sub-sub-sub directories that I'd like to somehow organize. For years I've
viewed the task as too herculean or complicated that I quickly figured only
a commercial solution would be availble, something to gladly accept my
numerous mailboxes and transfer them to a propreitary format which could
then only be viewed if EUL was accepted and paid for.
In recent thinking of (Open Source: my/Postgres)SQL abilities I realized
this task might not be so difficult.
1) A simple script to scan a mounted cdrom for mailboxes (uncompressed unix
mbox, if it's a file and has ^From: more than once it's probably a mailbox).
2) Take certain elements of the mail header To: From: Date: and use that for
indexing.
3) Feed it to the database
4) A PHP frontend to search/view/manipulate this database
My question is then: It seems there would a large demand to search or browse
years of personal email archives --there must be something out there. And
yes, I have not looked yet... because typically the results are overwhelming
and I'd rather get a poll of opinion.
Then of course, there are those of us who simply use grep.
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org
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