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I like it. Just got it going. Specifically I like that it stores all your emails as plain text, one file per email, so you can easily use/write other tools to
by jarofgreen 14y ago
I like it. Just got it going.
Specifically I like that it stores all your emails as plain text, one file per email, so you can easily use/write other tools to search/browse your backups if you need to. Maybe someone already has?
(Well, it stores the raw email contents as text. Most emails have a text/plain bit but not all, so you can almost just use grep.)
- icebraining 14y agoPlain text one file per email is the standard Maildir[1] format. It's extremely well supported by email programs and utilities. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
- jarofgreen 14y agoBaGoMa puts your email in folders based on the first 2 characters of the file name. eg 00/00a87... 00/00aa8... 0b/0b0a9... So you'd have to do some folder shuffling before dumping the data into a Maildir server filesystem but that's not to hard.