waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Mail archival and search

March 18th, 2004


Question posed to the cloud: How do you archive and search your back
email? I’m looking at (as I mentioned earlier today) coming up with a
delicious and nutritious way to digest a decade of email, and if I don’t
have to implement YET ANOTHER CUSTOM SOLUTION I’d prefer not to.

I’d prefer not to dump my data into a database; I like files, I
like the filesystem, I just want fulltext indexing
(preferably with some email smarts).
These look intriguing: Zoë
mairix. What else is out
there?

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