Archives of Email

I'm starting to think that my current email archiving solution is sub-optimal.

The gzip/bzip2 archives I have are space-efficient, but are a pain when I want to look through them for that email from 3 months ago (or 2 years ago) that I deleted from my normal mailbox (which is the whole reason why I keep the archives).

I'm thinking of using something like MailTools to push my archives into a database (and maybe eventually call it from procmail to push all new messages into the db). I could then make a simple web application to search the archives.

Maybe I'll have some spare time this weekend to see how feasible it is.

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Let me know what you come up with. I need a new archiving system too.

I'll be sure to post it here.

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