User: koodawg

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On: The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable

I have every email sent & received since '94, all in mbox format by year by email address. Easy to do and it comes in handy. Why not record conversations too!

so do I

On: Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching?

I've also been archiving my emails since the early 90s. I've got a few hundred thousand messages. I've always used procmail to store in mbox format. I use shell/grep etc for searching. With procmail I archive like so;

$HOME/Mail/year/SenderOrRecipientAddr

where SenderOrRecipientAddr is either the senders email addr or the recipients, depending upon whether it's mail to me or from me. This way for example everything I send and receive to/from joe@smith.com is in the same mbox file.

And storing it under $HOME/Mail allows imap to serve it up.