Hi! [skip this, rambling]I've been wondering about the same stuff lately. I have some 4 different accounts, abt. 5-10 different addresses and lot's of mail. I would also like to archive my mail (all mail). "Archiving" just doesn't work with mbox (or maildir) format. I almost killed a server recently just trying to access my maill... <grin>.
I was a user of groupware package called FirstClass before. I have to say I miss some of the functionality it provided. Like conferences (folders with addresses of their own). All stuff was server side, very light communications between client and server. No matter how much stuff one had, it wouldn't slow down a notch. And anytime you wanted to archive some stuff, you just created a folder and dragged the stuff over there.
[read from here] I'd like to have an independent software which would do the following: - Read any IMAP box (also sent messages) and download the contents- Throw the message data in SQL database and attachments to disk (with rules to limit max. size etc.)
- delete all the stuff from imap box when it's older than 100 days- only read stuff which is older than four days (then possible spam could be handled manually) - provide nice web interface for accessing the mails (with virtual folders, searches and different categorization)
Am I alone here with this? I've search the net all over for this kind of software. Is there a solution, or should I start coding (it's not all that hard to do with php for example)?
my2c, Timo Railo
I just had a simple and efficient idea: Since I have a sent folder with everything in there, and also a read folder, to which messages get filed when I have replied to them or am otherwise done therewith, and since these two folders are synchronised anyway between webmail and the various computers (Thanks offlineimap, winner of Martin's Best-Tool-Of-2003 award), I figure I should just let a cron script run over these two directories and let them do the work. This seems to be the best approach. Funny I haven't looked at that method yet.