Computing@Thayer

The Issue

I’m an email pack rat. I find old email messages extremely useful in the course of my work, and I accumulate gigabytes worth of them over the course of a year. But they’re only useful to me if I can find them when I need them.

I use the Thunderbird email client on Windows and found its email searching to be slow when slogging through my thousands of archived message (even when stored on local disk). So I hit on the idea [snip...]