Questions about archiving email
Questions about archiving email
- Subject: Questions about archiving email
- From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:46:32 -0500
Hi All,
On or about June 6th, of this year I turned off digest mode. WOW! What used
to be about 100 messages a month... well I don't need to state the obvious.
So now, of course, the proverbial question, "just how the heck am I going to
manage this?" I've not really concerned myself with archiving until now.
While exploring some solutions, scripts for FMPro, readers, etc, I happened
upon an idea. Mind you it was late. See, I use OE 5. It features Identities.
What if on or about June 30th...
the main identity folder did a little house cleaning, compacted itself to
purge the debris and then cloned itself (command-D). "I will call you
01.05.June" says the astonished main identity folder. "Stay and be as I was,
for now I will rid myself of all that I am, and morph into a new state of
being, (till on or around July 31,) when I will repeat this process."
Of course, none of this could happen without the help of (been up for about
36 hours now and need sleep) yours truly.
But anyway, you see the idea. You could manage small database archives,
months, quarters, half a year, whatever and just login [offline] with these
as identities. I don't know about you, but I like the way OE handles
messages, and IMHO the searching, filtering and scripting abilities are
superior to anything else I have tried. What I don't like is bloated message
databases.
It may even work with other programs (Quickmail comes to mind).
Anybody have thoughts to share? See potential problems with this solution?
data corruption, missing or duplicate ID's (Mr. Berkowitz?)
I'd be interested in hearing them.
Cheers,
bob.kalbaugh