[olug] Archiving email.

[Jon Larsen]

Why not store them in a MySQL database?

I found this while searching - I haven't used it, but I may give it a try.

Kom
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Archiving/Kom-14624.shtml

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Carl Lundstedt wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:46:40 -0600
> From: Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To:  <huskerlug at freelists.org>, Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] Archiving email.
> 
> I have about 27,000 emails spanning 3-4 years of my life. I spent a
> couple hours Friday night pruning out span. I need to retain these for
> reference and I'm getting nervous housing them solely on the server.  If
> I lost some of these I know I'd be sorry.
> 
> Anyone have suggestions on how to archive email in a good way?  I'd like
> to retain the ability to sort and search.  Could I create a thumbdrive
> of archived email to have with me?
> 
> Somethings I"ve considered:
> 
> a)Forward all of them to gmail.  Although I don't know if I trust those
> guys to be discrete
> 
> b) pull them all of the server to a local machine, build a local mbox
> and ...  profit...
> 
> Just looking for good suggestions...
> 
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> 
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