MailArchive

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=== list archive ===
My e-mail service provider (fastmail.fm) offers an easy to use
possibility, to make 
personal archive from mails, group of mails. On the mail server can 
dump
in files the messages, the filename comes from the Subject field of the
messages headers, the file extension is .eml. 
The archiver software compress this files in a zip file, and offers the
download this file.
I uncomress some this mail archive files on my small, old web server, 
it
is my personal archive of the MeshaAPusers list. The messages started
the beginning of May 2004, and counts cc. 2000 files.
It is not a searchable text database, can find only some keywords in 
the
filename/Subject fields.
You can browse this files from here:
http://kvtr.elte.hu/meshmsgs/
or:
http://157.181.66.23/meshmsgs/
The wellknown browsers recognize this files as message/rfc822 mime 
type,
and process it in different way.
I tested only with an old Netscape, the IE ver 5.0, and two Mozilla
versions.
The Netscape and newer Mozilla process the messages headers, cut it and
display the From, To, Subject fileds only, and the body of the 
messages.
The old IE cut the messages headers totaly, dont display it, and you
dont able to save it.
Display only the text of the messages body. (Of course, you can
configure your browser to present this file type correctly, but I dont
deal with this).
So: this is not a complete, searchable mail archive, but mybe useful.
best: t.janos
Janos Tolgyesi
Research Group for Communications Studies 
ELTE Universty, Budapest