[kwlug disc.] archiving email

[donald tees]

Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
> I've got every business email I've ever sent or recieved since about 
> 1998 in thunderbird on linux.  While my current method of 
> files/subfiles is working well, I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better 
> served by starting fresh, or cleaning this up somehow.
> What are folks doing in terms of archiving emails or getting them off 
> their desktop systems?  Or should I stick to what I'm doing and hope 
> that email becomes outdated before my system gets too big :).
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I'll bet if you actually looked at the size of the message files, and 
compared them to current disk prices, you'd stop worrying <G>.  I just 
put a 240 gig in, because it was only $12 more than a cheap 80. I take 
it from the phrasing "business emails" that these have been filtered 
somewhat. How much data are we talking about?

If you want to be able to read them a dozen years from now, I'd suggest 
printing them as PDF files, and putting them on a DVD. That can be done 
with half a dozen mouse clicks, though indexing them would be a bit more 
problematic.

Donald