hi

what you can possibly do is

Setup a mail server on a linux machine (qmail maybe), and specify an
account where all outgoing or incoming mail thru that server is by
default sent to that account, and other required accounts which may
include your personal account (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - your logging
account and [EMAIL PROTECTED] - where all your personal mails are
received ).

now get "fetchyahoo","getmail" and "fetchmail" - download your yahoo
mails thru fetchyahoo and send it to your [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it'll
automatically be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since yu've setup yr server in
that way), similarily do it for hotmail (getmail) and your POP servers
(fetchmail).

now download an app (MHonarc or hypermail), setup a cronjob
(hourly,daily,monthly,quartely whatever) which allows MHonarc to scan
specified mailboxes (in your case [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and create HTML files
from it (something of the kind you'll see at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]). Use htdig to make a
searchable database of those HTML files.

that's it. this way "all" of your outgoing and incoming mails would be
saved and will be searchable. you can do it for a single account also
(i.e. remove [EMAIL PROTECTED])

is there some other and better method? 

vivek

> Illustration:
> 
> 1. You may have a PC at home where you download emails from lets say 
> a1,a2,a3....
> 2. You have a PC at Office, where where you download emails from 
> b1,b2,b3....
> 3. You are having a PC at a Client site where you download emails 
> c1,c2,c3....
> 4. You have some webmail accounts Yahoo, Hotmail etc
> 
> 
> Now some where down the line, lets say after every 3 months or so, You 
> the recepient, want to archive all your mails from 
> a1,a2,a3,b1,b2,b3,c1,c2,c3 (and possibly Webmails?) probably on to a CD, 
> and read/search these mails through an interface.
> 


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