On 01/11/2012 11:57 PM, g wrote: >On 01/10/2012 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I've not searched for any existing utility since I keep all of my emails >> on an imap server and text based searches from email clients work just >> fine as the un-encoding is done behind the scenes and I've never found >> the need to directly search my messagestore with external tools. > -=- > > having your own mail server running is an advantage that i have not seen > great need for, considering what all i would have to go thru to set it > up and then maintain it. > He said imap server - not mail server - and setting up a local imap server for storing mail is really trivial. install and start dovecot - add account to your mail client pointing to your local imap server - use it to file your mail. thats it. Your approach of finding tools to transcode emails is way way way more complex and error prone ... gene -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org