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- From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: keyword based approach to saving/retreiving
- Message-ID: <18116@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 23:19:55 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.mail.mush
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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-
- I've been using Mail and now mush for 10 years now, pretty
- much the same way: filing things off to individual mail folders, some
- of them in subdirs off my ~/text/mail dir...
-
- Well, I'm getting tired of doing it that way! It can take
- a while to find things with lots of folders. I suppose I could save
- copies of some email to multiple folders, but that doesn't seem
- to be a good way of doing things (gee, let's fry disk space!)
-
- I'm interested in figuring out/finding something that would do this:
-
- * I save something off with, say, the keywords "X11R5, motif,
- Imake"
-
- * the actual email goes to ~/text/mail/1992/Dec/11
-
- * a simple database gets updated, and the entry looks something
- like:
-
- From: Dan Mosedale <mosedale@genome.stanford.edu>
- Message-Id: <199212111919.AA01351@genome.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Re: Depotizing Motif
- To: libby@osf.org (Libby Hanna)
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:19:36 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: motif-talk@osf.org
- Keywords: X11R5, motif, Imake
- File: _MAILHOME/1992/Dec/11
-
- (maybe more fields, maybe less, doesn't matter for the basic point..)
-
- Ok, so the email is squirreled away chronologically (or by some
- other user-specified arrangement), and there's a simple database
- for looking up things.
-
- * I would then be able to come along later and do some sort of
- pick/search through the database, such as "give me all of the
- X11R5, motif letters" or "give me all of the Imake letters from
- Libby Hanna". This seems to fit the natural way this mammal
- likes to find things :-)
-
-
- So anyways, this spills into "how to squirrel away news as
- well". Has anyone attempted this? Perhaps some other mailer that
- I've been blissfully ignorant of all this time? I imagine I could
- hack something together in Perl to do this, but thought I would get
- a feeler for what people have done, what they think.
-
- Daniel
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- Daniel Smith, Autodesk, Sausalito, California, (415) 332-2344 x 2580
- Disclaimer: written by a highly caffeinated mammal
- dansmith@autodesk.com dansmith@well.sf.ca.us
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