Hey, Philip!
On 8 Feb 2016, at 13:56, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2016-02-08 11:14:09 (+0100), Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:
My archives go back to the mid-nineties. Since mail (generally)
compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I
decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything
than to regularly evaluate what's relevant.
How often do you use / read those mid-nineties email messages now?
Surprisingly often!
I'm then a lot luckier: My archives grows bigger every year, but I
rarely (**very** rarely) search something older than three years.
Well, maybe not those from the nineties.
This is the chance to let them go! ;-)
(…)
Simple connectivity is one thing, but also finding what I need.
See my previous message: MailSteward or HoudahSpot make that realy
easy.
I hadn't heard of these until now.
MailSteward (http://www.mailsteward.com) worked just fine with Mail.app
for me - unfortunately not with MailMate, so I had to search for an
alternative. It makes a MySQL-database from the email messages and let
you search via an interface but also via *raw* sql-query if this strikes
your fancy. It can schedule archiving, support OS X tags etc.
HoudahSpot (https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/) uses Spotlight's
indexing for search, but it's a lot more powerful and convenient than
using Spotlight. I'm using this to search the archived email messages
from MailMate (they are eml-files in a Finder-folder). That's as quick
as MailSteward but let my email messages free from any proprietary
format (even if the eml-files - and their attributes - are generated by
MailMate while dragging them from MailMate into the Finder-folder). And
I'm using HoudahSpot already for searching & finding anything on my
iMac, so there is no supplementary effort involved :-)
I'm not terribly enthusiastic about spreading my email access across
different systems though.
That's a valid point!
But I think that Spotlight (w/o the confort of HoudahSpot) is secure
enough, don't you think?
Standardised IMAP "just works". Even if it means dragging a lot of
history around and stretching client data structures and indices to
their limits. :)
:-D
I can see the challenge, yes! Scaling is hard!
Thanks again for your thoughts!
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information
Vlad
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