Re: Reading mail stored in a DB

[Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just used the compressed mail folders patch, and archivemail program. I 
have a cron every month to zip up the mail and if I need to go back I can 
open the mail. If you aren't sure which month/year your mail is in "zcat 
*.gz >> all.gz; mutt -f all.gz"

Or..

Maybe this will help.

http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix/

-Jason

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:09:17AM +0100, Travis Spencer thus spake:
> On 12/28/05, George <d1945@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey George,
>
> > So, to sum up, mutt can read messages in a database, but only if you
> > remove them from the database.  I doubt that's what you're looking for
> > or wanted to hear
>
> Two other reasons to do this in my mind are 1) If all messages are
> stored in a database, three month old emails can be deleted willy
> nilly.  To view the old messages, I could just change to the
> `archive/foo' mailbox for example.  If I were to hack mutt to display
> all mailbox messages in the archive directory by querying the DB and
> displaying them in a normal manner, I would have a pretty nice
> archival system, 2) the system administrators at my school don't
> impose a quota on database size, but they do on file system usage. 
> So, I could store all the emails I wanted and never get bumped over
> quota :-)
>
> > you're heading down a dead-end street.  Or to use Kyle's words,
> > it's a silly idea.
>
> You guys are probably right.
>
> Thanks George, Kyle, and Emil for your comments.  Have a happy New Year!
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Travis Spencer

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