But how difficult would it be to archive email texts in a database (sqlite?) and the attachments directly on the filesystem? Then you backup that and you are se

But how difficult would it be to archive email texts in a database (sqlite?) and the attachments directly on the filesystem? Then you backup that and you are set. Instead now you still have to archive (I have a 500 MB limit), but you do in a .pst file that you anyway have to use from Outlook that, again, does not have a good way of finding stuff (have you tried the search box on even only 6 months of emails?) or, even more important, to comment stuff (how many times I wanted to add comments to an email, nobody thought of that?). Edit: Yes, I know what you are thinking: it takes more space! But hey, don't we have super sized hard drives anyway?