Re: Archive, Index, Search, Find old messages

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Kirk_ wrote:
I have ten years worth of emails and would like to find a solution for
archiving them where I can index and search them any way that I wish.

I have kept using OE frankly because the best SPAM that I have tried
is Cloudmark and it only works with Outlook or OE.

I tried Outlook for a year and got tired of it crashing. OE crashes
too, but when it happens, I rarely loose messages. Also, OE seems to
be much faster. I think the speed has to do with OE storing it's
emails in multiple DBX files, instead of one Mega file. Outlook's PST
file grew to over 6GB and all my OE files together are only 5.5 GB
and there are twice the number of messages in there.

Would be sweet if there was a third party program that could index a
whole bunch of DBX files to make them searchable. Then I could copy
all my old OE files to a folder and let that program handle searching
and retrieval of old messages when I need them. Then I could clear
out OE and give it some breathing room.

Any good ideas?

Thanks,

Kirk

Why not do as I do and create an additional Identity for the old
messages? You don't have to configure an account in it. Create the ID,
import your mail from the current ID and continue using the old ID for
new mail. Then you can switch between ID's to find old messages. You are
also less likely to lose the old stuff, because there is no account
configured, OE will not be continually accessing the default folders and
writing to them. Your old ID will also be lean and mean!

You may also be interested in the following -
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)

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