I am using hypermail to cross-reference my historical emails - outbound
as well as inbound. Here are some things that would be very nice to have...
- Cross reference by "to" field - very handy for OUTBOUND email.
- Create a cross-reference by author that crosses all archive sets (I
do things by month, but would like the author index to cross all time).
- Dates should optionally be allowed to appear as YYYY MM DD format -
particularly nice for sorting!
- I would like to see a command line option for adding a mailbox to an
existing archive. The idea would be to create one giant archive that
allows views by author, by date, etc. - but with hierarchies of dates
(see all, see year, see month, see week, see day, (in my case) see hour.
- It would be very nice to be able to sort by inbound / and outbound
users so that both the from and the to mails for a particular individual
would be grouped together.
- A step further would be to set up an interface to an SQL or perl
database so that cross-references by arbitrary items (as well as
user-defined classifications of things) could be selected for search
and presentation. This would move toward an email database that could be
interlinked with other databases - such as date book, phone book, etc.
Always wishing...
FC
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Received on Mon 15 Mar 1999 06:29:40 PM GMT