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

[Figaro]

Hello,
Thank you, I'll see what resources will be given to do this. Somehow one
thinks those in power were thinking this to be a simple task, sort of a
fill in thing (when you're not doing anything else). Now of course there
is one guesses a client need for some files herein buried, or a pending
legal need.
I have one many meeting occasions attempted to "gently but firmly"
suggest this project is not a mere bagatelle tossed lightly off the
keys, to little response, of course!!
Thank you,
matthew

R. Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> The first task I see, is converting all back into one format, easy to
> parse and well known (with extraction tools available). My choice would
> be mbox.
>>From there you'll be able to fetch one mail at a time, convert what you
> want into what you need. Maybe one sub-directory par mail, one text file
> containing headers (always useful for indexing), one pdf file result of
> the conversion of the e-mail's body, attached files, stored
> individually.
> 
> If disk space would allow it, I'd rather build an Imap server and import
> everything into it, letting it do the indexing job, any imap capable
> e-mail client being able to run a search afterwards.
> 
> just some idea ...
> 
> R. Daneel Olivaw,
> The Human Robot Inside.
> 
> 
> 
> Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 17:59 +0100, Figaro a écrit :
>> 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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