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+ | ====== My Mailbox Is Full! ====== | ||
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+ | 24th December 2015 | ||
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+ | I've been collecting and archiving my e-mail now for nearly 30 years. That's not strictly true: I've been backing up lots of files and junk now for a long time, and a part of this are the e-mail' | ||
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+ | A while back I tried to find an old e-mail and found the task impossible after hours searching through old CDs and DVDs, so I bit the bullet and built an e-mail archive. I have a home-grown tool that extracts mail from various sources ([[https:// | ||
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+ | With the archived mboxes, I run [[http:// | ||
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+ | My first received e-mail in the archive is dated the 23rd March 1988. At uni we had internal TOPS-20 e-mail from 1984 when I started in first year, but this is the first e-mail that I have that came from another system. The university had an [[https:// | ||
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+ | Currently I have about 6.8G of mail stored in my archive. Below is a graph of the amount of mail I have archived on a yearly basis. It starts at 1.8M in 1988 and 2015 saw a staggering 1.4G of mail. I had to rescale the graph with a logarithmic y-axis so you could see the data from the early years. | ||
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+ | I'm not a fan of facebook, IMs and such, so I expect to be using e-mail (and mutt) for a long time to come. As long as disk space increases at the same rate that my mail storage increases, I'll be good! | ||
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