the necessary function is for them to be able to read archived e-mail.
In a file that is probably 10s or 100s of MB per months, isn't a tool that also searches an indexed text database (file) much more useful than presenting the text file as a sequence of one-at-a-time de-MIMEd formatted messages?
Here's a free "big picture" (the $$ are in the details):
Rather than stopping the archival process at the bcc delivery to a mailbox file and handing that to the client, go further and have that mailbox read by a POP client such a Eudora or TheBat that read the mailbox msgs and delivers to the POP clients indexed (and optionally filtered-into-mailboxes), including de-MIME-ing of attachments into the, eg, Eudora/attach/ directory.
So your periodic CDROM would have:
1. Eudora or TheBat (or better) as "message archive" reader (Eudora includes searching on one or more fields of various type, including regex). You could complement the mailbox reader with one or more the numerous google hits for "email+search+text+windows"
2. /Eudora/*.mbx, *.toc directory
3. /Eudora/attach/ directory
For more value-added $$$ in your consultant's pocket, you and client could define any number of Eudora mailbox files that the complete archive would be distributed to using Eurdora message filtering.
Len
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