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I wrote software which scans a hard disk for email in any of 6 formats, converts them to Mbox (eg, standard, with emails one after another in plaintext), create
by zandorg 15y ago
I wrote software which scans a hard disk for email in any of 6 formats, converts them to Mbox (eg, standard, with emails one after another in plaintext), creates 2 indexes (full-text and SQL) then lets you search all your emails with a Lucene query (full text of email bodies) or an SQL query (MySql or PostGres or SQLite - SQL database of common email headers). It doesn't run on 'the cloud'; it's a Windows application.
An example search is 'All emails from "geocities.com" between March 2009 and April 2009, with attachments.
I haven't found anyone who wants such a program. Anyone here interested?
- greyboy 15y agoAbsolutely. It fits my usage nicely.
- inklesspen 15y agoWhy mbox instead of, say, Maildir? The irreversible mangling mbox requires makes me reluctant to use it as an archive format.
- zandorg 15y agoIt can output single emails to folders named after months (eg, 2011_10_18), which I think is MailDir.
- jzawodn 15y agoI'm interested too... Jeremy@Zawodny.com (since I've considered writing such a beast myself like a dozen times)
- hachiya 15y agoFor Linux users there is "notmuch" for full-text searching. http://notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org Uses the excellent Xapian library to perform just about any search you'd need.