Ancestors

Written by megaman@discuss.tchncs.de on 2024-10-30 at 02:22

Store (and access) old emails

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Toot

Written by Joël de Bruijn on 2024-10-30 at 05:24

I had roughly the same goals ( archive search 2 decades of mail) but approached it completely different:

I export every mail to PDF with a strict naming convention.

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Descendants

Written by atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 2024-10-30 at 06:08

Pdf? You converted plain text to something designed to preserve formatting? But why?

You could use maildir and find things with “grep” or any mail client like Thunderbird.

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Written by Joël de Bruijn on 2024-10-30 at 06:49

I don’t know.

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Written by atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 2024-10-30 at 12:25

Why would you want a mail specific stack of hosting, storage, indexing and frontends? If it’s all plain text anyway so the regular storage solutions for files come a long way.

Because email has metadata. From, to, sent date, subject, etc. Plus attachments that may be binary.

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Written by Joël de Bruijn on 2024-10-30 at 16:00

Must admit, those fields are precisely the ones I use in my filenaming convention. Other DMS put that in their databases but alas that’s just trading one stack for another.

Other ones put it in XMP metadata of the pdf themselves. But I guess the work involved would be similar.

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