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

[Figaro]

Hello,
Well, my problem is that for legal reasons the e-mails need to be intact
with attachments etc or graphics if so included, etc..
That is why the dictum of pdf. The company is an mech. engineering firm,
as such many many e-mails will contain CAD documents, graphics files and
misc. references pertinent to the then current client projects.

Perhaps a method to strip the e-mail body from "other" formated data
would work.. but one has also to look not to destroy octet stream files
as many of the attached .dxf and .iges files required a lic. file to
open them and were attached with the CAD files and encrypted lic. in
emails.

This may in fact not be a do able mission... someone up stream however
has driven the ship! I may be in for a beaching on the sand bars as I
was told "just do it...".

Yea, happy Good morning, too;-).

Thank you for your help.
matthew

Ricardo Dalceno wrote:
> Well... I have no idea how you can do this in an easy way.
> *BUT* I know that the better way is to use enscript and not
> Gimp,Inkscape,etc .
> ; )
> 
> Ricardo "j0k3r" Dalceno
> 
> 
> 2008/10/9 Figaro <ynegorp at charter.net>
> 
>> 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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