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How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives?

Posted by timothy on from the translate-them-to-quipu dept.

heyitsjustme wants to know how you deal with old email. "I delete most of what I get but keep the stuff from friends and relations as an archive. Unfortunately I have these email archives from the late 80's through today in the form of macintosh, linux and windows mailboxes including AOL 1.0 mailboxes. What does everyone use to archive email across multiple platforms and non-standard mailbox formats? Is there an easy solution out there? Does anyone archive IM?"

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  1. Here's what I do... by sub7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I archive all my pr0n on DVDs these days. It's really easy and oh wait... fsck!

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    1. Re:Here's what I do... by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I archive all my pr0n on DVDs these days. It's really easy and oh wait... fsck!

      One day... someone... somewhere is going to invent some sort of mechanism for removing text you've already typed. It shall be called "back-one-space" and will remove the letter before it.

      If this is impossible, surely they can keep a way of having all our text auto-submitted!

  2. I work for Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...so I just delete everything after a major deal falls through.

  3. Re:Log everything... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    I log and keep all my traffic including IRC logs going back to '94.

    Hey B5_geek, here's a trick to free up a lot of disk space *and* raise the S/N ratio in your logs:

    mv irclog.txt irclog.txt.fat && grep -vi lol irclog.txt.fat > irclog.txt && rm -f irclog.txt.fat

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