[NTLUG:Discuss] Read-Only Email Archive System - possible?

[Daniel Hauck]

richard witt さんは書きました:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm hoping someone else has done this and can offer advice and/or
>> platforms/software to use
>>
>> I'm moving email systems....have
>> years and years of email....while I could move it to the new system, I
>> really don't need it on the new system - I just need 'access' to it for
>> searching.
>>
>> So what I'm looking for is an online email
>> system/software/platform that doesn't send email out (so hacking might be
>> minimized since email doesn't go out) but allows for searching of old
>> email.
>>
>> Just for the record....I believe it to be a Maildir
>> system (used QMail / Squirrelmail setup)
>>
>> I know that I can copy
>> it to my local computer...and run Thunderbird or something to
>> access/search it.....but I'd like an online system (web front-end) when
>> I'm not on my local system.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice - hints,
> 
> I would just upload it to a gmail account that you will never really
> use. Just create a new one that only you know the address for.
> 

I am not sure I will ever understand the trust people put into google
and it's applications.  Unless something has changed, they never delete
anything... even when you think you have deleted something, it is
archived and indexed.  And all these cloud computing apps?  It amazes me
that people are quite protective of the data they store locally and yet
are prepared to ship it off to a 3rd party for safe keeping.

I might suggest stone tablets with your emails engraved upon them.  They
will last thousands of years.

It would be kinda neat to have a massive amount of data indexed and
sorted on some storage device with a convenient and logical interface in
front of it.  Those terabyte+ sized drives are getting amazingly cheap
these days... we just need the application to drive it.