Search Through Thousand Of Emails One Mail :), Search emails on server
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Search Through Thousand Of Emails One Mail :), Search emails on server| sergiut2002 |
Posted: Jan 19 2009, 01:52 PM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 29 Member No.: 3111 Joined: 22-December 08  |
before i took over the e-mail server all incoming emails were redirected from 50 accounts to only one account for backup. There are like 60k emails. From time to time i'm asked to search for a speficic e-mail. Problem is that the e-mail format is not readable on server. What can i do to search faster?
Is there any converter or anything to make those files easier to read. If i use an e-mail client to download the e-mails from server the inbox crashes when over 2GB. |
  
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| hschneider |
Posted: Jan 19 2009, 11:24 PM
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 No - I'm not an answering script ...  Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02 |
What exactly do you mean with "searching emails" ?
All mails are plain text files which can be processed easily. The 2 GB limit is a problem of Outlook. Use e.g. Thunderbird instead. -------------------- Bye,
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| sergiut2002 |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 07:44 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Member No.: 3111 Joined: 22-December 08 |
i mean searching for a specific e-mail by Date, Who sent it. i'll try thunderbird. last time i tried, it hanged |
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| hschneider |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 07:57 AM
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No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02 |
So this about searching inside a mail client. This forum is about XMail SERVER, looks like this is sightly off-topic ..
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Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg |
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| sergiut2002 |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 09:12 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Member No.: 3111 Joined: 22-December 08 |
well i wanted to know if there is any facility to read those plain text without an e-mail client. Any script/filter i get tons of spam and searching for one e-mail in those plain text files is madness. 1231190885486.1317128512.20c.trat <-- this is how e-mails are stored on server. I got 50.000 like that. How can i search for only 1 e-mail . This was the question  |
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| sergiut2002 |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 09:19 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Member No.: 3111 Joined: 22-December 08 |
starting over... i got in one mailbox on server a lot of e-mails. This e-mails are redirected to this mailbox for backup from other mailboxes.
When someone needs an e-mail from few months ago, i need to search in this mailbox and recover it. Any easy ways to get a specific e-mail from all backed up e-mails if i'm given the date, sender etc of the e-mail? |
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| Sob |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 04:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Member No.: 2881 Joined: 19-April 08 |
Those files contain the whole source of e-mail messages including all headers. Reading the body of message might not be easy, because it can be in some user-unreadable encoding like base64. Headers on the other hand are plain text and searching them with some script should be very easy.
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| hschneider |
Posted: Jan 20 2009, 07:21 PM
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No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02 |
Use some webmail frontend to display and search mailbox content. As Sob said: parsing raw content by script can be tricky.
E.g. http://blog.ilohamail.org/ or http://www.uebimiau.org/ -------------------- Bye,
Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg |
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| sergiut2002 |
Posted: Jan 22 2009, 08:50 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 29 Member No.: 3111 Joined: 22-December 08 |
ok.. thanks for the tips
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