[OT] Re: Questions about archiving email
[OT] Re: Questions about archiving email
- Subject: [OT] Re: Questions about archiving email
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:45:58 -0700
On 6/26/01 3:46 PM, "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden> wrote:
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But anyway, you see the idea. You could manage small database archives,
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months, quarters, half a year, whatever and just login [offline] with
these
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as identities. I don't know about you, but I like the way OE handles
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messages, and IMHO the searching, filtering and scripting abilities are
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superior to anything else I have tried. What I don't like is bloated
message
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databases.
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It may even work with other programs (Quickmail comes to mind).
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Anybody have thoughts to share? See potential problems with this solution?
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data corruption, missing or duplicate ID's (Mr. Berkowitz?)
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I'd be interested in hearing them.
OK, let me make sure I understand: What did you do with the copy? Left it
there as a separate identity? You mean that in a month's time, you'll do the
same, so that in 2 year's time you'll have 24 identities, each representing
a month's worth of messages. Then, if you're looking back to something from
summer 2001, you can check June, July, August until you find it. Yes, that's
quite clever, and I think it should work fine.
(If you ever get Entourage, it's a lot easier: just drag a folder to the
desktop and it automatically becomes an MBOX text file. You can now delete
the original Entourage folder and compact. If you need to look for
something, just drag the MBOX file back in, find what you want, then delete
the folder again. So this way you could have separate folders by topic, or
whatever.)
Both of them are sort of "poor man's archivers", which aren't nearly as
exhaustive as something like FMP, which can search much faster with much
bigger databases. But reasonably good, nonetheless. The only trouble I can
see is if, after the fact, you decided you'd really like to join a few of
these identities up, or even just some folders, for easier searching in
future. In OE, that would be very difficult (dragging messages, not folders,
to the desktop, switching identities, dragging them back in. That would be
much easier in Entourage with whole folders.) But, still, that's a clever
idea you had, Bob.
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Paul Berkowitz