[Hidden-tech] Apple question re: email

[Jan Werner]

You can do the same thing with Thunderbird. Thunderbird "folders" are 
plain text files that can be copied for archival storage. Thunderbird 
will rebuild an index if it doesn't find the index file in the same 
directory as the email "folder" file and also provides for full-text 
search through emails, although it is not particularly fast at it.

However, if you have a serious amount of email archived and from which 
you need to find and retrieve information, I would recommend askSam, a 
free-form database program with exceptional search flexibility that 
includes a wizard to import email from both Eudora and Thunderbird. You 
can read more about using askSam for email archiving on their website 
at: http://www.asksam.com/solutions/email%20archiving.asp

askSam runs under Windows only, but that is not a problem today for Mac 
owners with VMware Fusion or Parallels. It is a little pricey at $150 
for the Standard edition and $395 for the Pro edition (which adds 
full-text indexing for fast searching and a very useful word list), but 
it goes on sale for much less every so often -- I bought the Pro edition 
for $100 a couple of years ago.

Jan Werner
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shel at frugalfun.com wrote:
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> One of the reasons I've stayed with Eudora even though I'm straining its
> capacity is that archiving is easy. Every month, I take the contents of the
> in and out boxes and move them to another folder--which I can search easily
> going back over a decade. These go into a folder called "Old e-mail." Tens
> of thousands of messages--and that's with deleting 3/4 of incoming mail.
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> Original Message:
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> From: Jeff Rutherford jeff at jeffrutherford.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:09:09 -0400
> To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Apple question re: email
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> Over the weekend, my Mac Mail crashed. In the process of restoring my  
> email, I have some questions for the Mac gurus on the list re: Mac Mail.
> 
> How can I archive old emails, yet be able to search them if I need to?  
> For example, I literally had thousands of emails sitting in my Sent  
> folder. I would like to archive those, so I have access to them, but  
> not have thousands of emails sitting in my Sent folder all the time.
> 
> What are some basic tips on archiving old emails in Mac Mail? Thanks  
> in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> 
> Jeff
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