Keep It Simple, Stupid | |
PerlMonks |
Managing a Personal Email Archiveby dave_aiello (Pilgrim) |
on Mar 06, 2002 at 19:19 UTC ( [id://149801]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I have been using Netscape or Mozilla as my mail client since 1996, and I have built up a message archive with thousands of messages. The way I have managed this archive, up to now, is to create folders within the Mozilla mail client. I then use the "Search Mail/News Messages" function in the mail client to find specific messages. This is not scaling well. Searches take a long time because each folder is stored as two text files:
I am not asking for help identifying the Perl modules to parse mail out of a Mozilla mailbox. I think this was covered in a previous question I posted, Netscape/Mozilla Mailbox Processing. But, I do wonder if my fellow monks would mind commenting on:
Thanks,
Dave Aiello An error has occurred. The site administrators have been notified of the problem and will likely soon fix it. We thank you, for you're patients.
Back to
Meditations
|
|