[oclug] Saving and indexing all incoming email

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Ian! D. Allen wrote:

> I've been doing that for over 10 years now.  The problem now is how to
> find stuff.  Grep gets kind of sluggish on directories containing several
> hundred thousand email messages occupying hundreds and hundreds of MB.

I do it by month in .procmailrc:

REC=`date +%Y-%m`

:0 c
Received-Archive/${REC}

So I get Recevied-Archive/2002-01, 2002-02, etc.  If I can more-or-less
remember the time frame of the message I'm looking for, I don't need
to grep through them all.

If you have 10 years worth of messages in a few files, it shouldn't be
hard to split them into individual files on a web server and index
them using ht://Dig, or some equivalent.

--
David.