[geeks] New email archiving help

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Fri Feb 20 19:04:31 CST 2009


William Enestvedt wrote:
> Phil wrote, "...you might as well just write something to split it on
> the separators and emit the result in something straightforward like,
> say, mbox format." Emininently logical. I will call it...The Wheel! :7)
> 
>    OK cheap shot maybe, but I was hoping to avoid that much work. Still,
> as you noted, these are pretty much irreplaceable, so maybe I ought to
> try. I believe there's a Perl::Mail module or something like that, so I
> guess it's finally time to Master Perl...like this weekend.
> 
>    I am embarassed to admit I never thought of Mike's idea, to import
> them into Eudora again. *smites forehead* (But truth be told, I never
> thought to use Eudora since about 1996.)
> 

My thought was to use Eudora, then use IMAP to put them on a Unix server
machine (like uw-imap or whatnot).  At that point, any IMAP client can
be used to pull down the messages; or they can be modified/hacked about
with, on the server.

Standards-based, etc. etc.

--Patrick



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