[Techtalk] Archiving Email.. need ideas, tips, etc..

Figaro ynegorp at charter.net
Thu Oct 9 16:59:59 UTC 2008


Hello, all.
I need some ideas to accomplish a task dumped in my "inbox" and now
flowing out the drawers, as it were!

I have sitting on my desk a box containing 35+ 18gib u-320 hard drives,
each full of e-mail messages.
My given task is to find a way to archive all this "history" in .pdf
files. I am told, though have not yet verified, there are 2 email
formats that were used and herein stored, as two mailer programs were used:
Mozilla (more likely they used Netscape of some flavor) and Evolution
.mbox .... though several employees are emphatic there were periods that
Opera was the pie of the moment all were instructed to use.......!
So, what I am needing to do is salvage the individual e-mails with
content intact as a separate .pdf per user (or series of .pdfs for the
more "Fluent and higher stature" users) then generate a catalog as
another .pdf. Finally one is to make dvd.iso files for the obvious
utility of archive use.

Anyway, does anyone have an idea how one may approach this?
Fortunately there is NO MS Win. stuff involved, Linux, HP-UX and Solaris.
I'll do the work in and on Linux (Debian SID), likely Inkscape, oo.org,
 Gimp, maybe Scribus if needed. Or pstopdf.

Thank you,
matthew


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