I ran a SEARCH and it wasn't too bad.. Might try a DIR or something next - I wonder what a DIR or SEARCH over DECNET would do :) sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 13 Oct 2013, at 00:52, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote: So, the questions is - Does VMS support 12,000+ files in one directory? How responsive is it? Ian On Oct 12, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: I found a converter to turn the single mbox file into 12,000+ .EML (==plain ASCII) files. They're now up on the dropbox: CHIMPY:[.DROPBOX.LIST-EML] Individual file for each archived message here. CHIMPY:[.DROPBOX]HECNETLIST-EML.ZIP The whole lot zipped up Hope somebody finds some use for these :) sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 12 Oct 2013, at 23:42, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: BTW, does anyone want the archive split into individual messages, i.e. one message / file? Does VMS even support 12,000+ files in one directory? sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 12 Oct 2013, at 23:27, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: If I remembered any SQL and my HTML knowledge was more than <blink>, <marquee>, and <a> i'd make it web-accessible. There has to be something where we can just import the messages and has a browse/search function. Sticking all this in an SQL database would be pretty simple with an ORM + Python, but I hate writing web front ends. sampsa --- Filter service subscribers can train this email as spam or not-spam here: http://my.email-as.net/spamham/cgi-bin/learn.pl?messageid=DECD9C68339011E3A…