[admin] is there app to catalog email oe6

[Paul Gimpelj]

Hi
I am hoping posgresql will get more widely used.
I have an idea for an application.

Consider , after spending months collecting email with information for
research there becomes the need to catalog it
and store it efficiently. A lot of it is scientific and engineering related.

Is there an open source project to pull the outlook express email and
catalog it into postgresql.
and if not is there any interest in starting a project.




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[Rosser Schwarz]

Post by Paul Gimpelj
I am hoping posgresql will get more widely used.

Aren't we all?

Post by Paul Gimpelj
I have an idea for an application...

I'm not sure this is the most appropriate list for such a discussion.
pgsql-admin is for discussions related to adminstering PostgreSQL.

If you want to pursue such a project, you'd probably be well served by
looking at the various tools that will convert Outlook's .pst files to
standard *nix mbox files. From there, you're just parsing plain text,
which any number of tools (even, like as not, some designed
specifically for dumping mboxen into SQL tables) can work handily
with.

/rls

[Michelle Konzack]

Post by Paul Gimpelj
Hi
I am hoping posgresql will get more widely used.

???

Post by Paul Gimpelj
I have an idea for an application.

Nice...

Post by Paul Gimpelj
Consider , after spending months collecting email with information for
research there becomes the need to catalog it
and store it efficiently. A lot of it is scientific and engineering related.

OK, I do it too...

Post by Paul Gimpelj
Is there an open source project to pull the outlook express email and
catalog it into postgresql.

No, but there is a Project on SourceForge which converts the outlook
munster file to plain mboxfiles. (can be filtered at processing time)

Do not ask me about the name, which I have forgotten because since
more the 5 years I do not use WinXX

Post by Paul Gimpelj
and if not is there any interest in starting a project.

I run a postgresql database with around 5 million E-Mails from more
then 210 Mailinglists. I can search fast as the heaven :-)

No need to ask every time the Lists for Help :-)

Greetings
Michelle