Agreed. I did a lot of work to export my multi-multi gigabyte email archive into a massive tree of RFC822 EML files and then come up with ways to sort and search them- but in the end I almost always just fire up MailStore Home to find an old email. I like having all the original EML files around for the very rare case when I need to do something special like searching for a string inside a header, but for normal stuff MailStore is great.
I've also been using a unique hashed email address for every webform I've filled out in the past 10 years. It is very interesting to see where the leaks come up. Here is a short list of some of the people who (willingly or unwillingly) ratted me out to spammers....
If you've ever given any of these people your address, then it is likely that you can thank them for some of the spams you get every day.
I used to try and tell people that they had a problem but never got any kind of positive response so I don't bother anymore.
Typically I will kill a compromised address as soon as it starts getting spam, but I often still want to keep getting the real emails from the original website so I'll go in and update my email address to a brand new hash- and then soon start getting spams on that one. Argh.
BTW, I also use a unique hash for the return address on every email I send out. You quickly find out which of your friends are virus-prone...
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Agreed. I did a lot of work to export my multi-multi gigabyte email archive into a massive tree of RFC822 EML files and then come up with ways to sort and search them- but in the end I almost always just fire up MailStore Home to find an old email. I like having all the original EML files around for the very rare case when I need to do something special like searching for a string inside a header, but for normal stuff MailStore is great.
I tried to do the same thing, but not as much luck...
http://josh.com/notes/archive-huge-pst-email-collection/default.htm
How did you get Windows to read and index the meta data from the headers in the EML files?
How do you view the EML files, especially ones with MIME html and attachments?
Thanks,
josh
I've also been using a unique hashed email address for every webform I've filled out in the past 10 years. It is very interesting to see where the leaks come up. Here is a short list of some of the people who (willingly or unwillingly) ratted me out to spammers ....
NYTIMES.COM
LAPLINK.COM
DIRECTV.COM
ZENBE.COM
FLUKE.COM
SHAPEWAYS.COM
INTELIUS.COM
MANDARINHOTEL.COM
TRANSCEND.COM
ROKU.COM
WALLHOGS.COM
IRR.COM
NYWATERWAY.COM
TICKETMASTER.COM
REVERSEGENIE.COM
LIVEMODERN.COM
SIDEFX.COM
MORFIK.COM
SHAPEWAYS.COM
HOEMDEPOT.COM
SPEAKEASY.NET
SOLARWINDS.COM
ENDLESSPOOLS.COM
CHECKS.COM
BUYERZONE.COM
ZEVIA.COM
MAXIMHQ.COM
If you've ever given any of these people your address, then it is likely that you can thank them for some of the spams you get every day.
I used to try and tell people that they had a problem but never got any kind of positive response so I don't bother anymore.
Typically I will kill a compromised address as soon as it starts getting spam, but I often still want to keep getting the real emails from the original website so I'll go in and update my email address to a brand new hash- and then soon start getting spams on that one. Argh.
BTW, I also use a unique hash for the return address on every email I send out. You quickly find out which of your friends are virus-prone...
-josh