Keeping emails as text files: 2 scripts

Posted by eldersnake on Oct 29, 2015 8:13 AM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov
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Most people store and organise their personal emails as individual files (messages) in folders. Those folders might be on a webmail company's servers, or in a mail client program on the user's personal computer. In both cases the emails are probably in a special email format.

I'm horribly old-fashioned. I store my emails in plain text files, one long file for each correspondent, in chronological order. To make this easier I use the two shell scripts described in this article.

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