No, there was an article about archiving mail in MySQL. I'll have to look when I get a chance.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Email archival > "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Aren't you in USENIX? There was an article in ;login about how to do this. I > > forget which issue though. Scan the archives at usenix.org if you can. > > > I just scanned through and all I could find was an article on archiving > all incoming and outgoing mail on a sendmail smtp server. not what he > wants to do. > > I'd imagine the mdirarchive script I linked to earlier could modified > to output into a database instead of monthly maildirs. I find it just > as easy to do things like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep "whatever" ~/.maildir/.ArchiveMail.2003-*/*/* | less > <spotted something apparently relevant> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mutt -f ~/.maildir/.ArchiveMail-2003-08 > > Or I could use something like mairix (http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix/) to > do indexing and searching. You run mairix out of cron to index > your folders. You can then run a search and build a maildir of search > results which you would open in a normail client > > -- > Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" > gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
