I’m looking for a great way to search through my email. I use email to store all kinds of information, like records, numbers, contact information, conversations, projects, files, and events. So, looking for these kinds of things using tools like the non indexed search tools in the mail client itself can be an exercise in frustration. What’s worse is that when I use an indexing tool like Google Desktop search it often just does not find what I’m looking for, no matter what my search phrase is. So, this open source tool for indexing email into a database seems like a great thing to me. We’ll see.
freshmeat.net: Project details for MailSteward
MailSteward will archive all of your email in a database for easy retrieval, without touching or modifying the email in your email client program. Just click on the Store Email in Database button and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of all your email, both text and HTML versions, and attachments, into a relational database file. You can then retrieve email and attachments from the database by searching on Date, From, To, Subject, Mailbox, or Body text.
