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How do you double space emails on gmail?

Gmail for my old mail?

  • Gmail-like interface for my old emails? I have tons (GBs) of old emails, going back to 1992. I've pretty much got them consolidated now into mbox format and I'd like to have some sort of searchable web interface for them, much like gmails. I know Mail.app does searching, but that ties me to one machine, which is boo. As far as the interface goes, I love gmail's searching and especially the conversation view. Is there anything that will do what I want? At my disposal I've got an OS X server, a Sun server, and hosting space on Dreamhost. (PS: I know about uploading scripts for gmail, but they a) get the date wrong and b) will take a very long time with this amount of email)

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    bonaldi: I've done a lot of work with Ruby on Rails and folksonomies and the next version of http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/ will have mail support. I am considering twisting it into a full-scale mail client though, possibly for multi-user/company use. BTW, http://www.joyent.com/ already have an amazing system that handles mail in such a way, but it'll cost you a few thousand dollars to get on board.

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Oops, I forgot to say: I know about Zoe, but its flaky, has a strange concept of conversation, and is generally a bit too odd. Plus it's Java.

bonaldi

If compatibility with mbox is the biggest concern, http://freshmeat.net/projects/openwebmail is likely your best bet. Not quite GMail, but it's a fairly light webapp that puts a nice searchable web interface on any existing *NIX mail accounts on a server. There's a SunOS/Solaris port.

eschatfische

I use mail.app from my desktop and laptop without issue. I just keep all the messages on my IMAP accounts.

I Love Tacos

I don't know if it's compatible with mbox, but http://www.roundcube.net/ offers a nice webmail interface that sure beats Dreamhost's default squirrelmail.

Robot Johnny

I'd looked at roundcube before, but wrote it off because it has no search. has that changed?

bonaldi

(btw I'm not too bothered about the mbox thing: I'm happy to upload these emails to an IMAP server or whatever if that's required)

bonaldi

Nelson

I find mail.app gets ridiculously slow after a certain number of messages. I'm going to be putting all of my mail into a del.icio.us style folksonomy system with automatic tagging soon :)

wackybrit

How about using GMail? Check out http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/ that takes an mbox file an imports in in to GMail.

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