How about for now I just make one big searchable file (Mail.app exports the mailbox as one huge text file), accessible through PYFFLE::? Basically, it'll run 'less' and you can scroll the mails and search them etc. That could be up in 20 mins :) Then I'll start thinking about a proper way to do it. sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:14, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2013-10-12 17:11, Sampsa Laine wrote: Guys, I just realised that I've pretty much NEVER deleted any message from this list, and my Mail client says I have about 12,000 of them since dated back to March 2008. You guys think it might be an idea to export these in some format and make them searchable? Can I say put 12,000 text files on CHIMPY and let people use the SEARCH command to look for specific keywords (i.e. will the performance be reasonable)? Alternatively, I suppose I could build some quick web app for browsing/searching the mails (authenticated of course, don't want the whole world to see our list). Any ideas? It's something similar that I had in mind to do at some point. My only "problem" is that I also keep some "private" mails related to HECnet in the same folder, so I should sort that out. I have something close to 16.000 mails in my archive. I think it would be nice if you did something, but I have no clear idea how it should be done. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol