Re: Converting Messages into Some Sort of Database...

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A TRUE database could be kept on our LAN and be used by multiple support
people, etc. plus if you have kept a LARGE volume of messages, you've
HAD to have seen the "slugisness" of e-mails search engine (at least
with Netscape Communicator...)

Am I missing the boat here ? :-)

Walden Leverich wrote:

> What do you hope to accomplish n a database that you can't do simply
> by
> keeping the messages in folders in the e-mail package of your choice.
> I can
> do full text searches in Outlook so I'm not sure I see the need.
>
> -Walden
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 1:23 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Converting Messages into Some Sort of Database...
>
> I'm CURRENTLY using Netscape Communicator but became aware yesterday
> that I COULD do all of this through Outlook. Still doesn't solve the
> "convert to database" question - doesn't ANYONE else have a need to
> have
> a searchable database of this information outside of e-mail ?
>
> Thanks for the Outlook info though !
>
> Walden Leverich wrote:
>
> > What e-mail package are you using? I've moved from Exchange to
> Outlook
> >
> > Express to Outlook 97 to Outlook 98 between 3 machines and never
> lost
> > a
> > message. You should be able to do the same in most e-mail systems.
> BTW
> > the
> > move to Outlook 98 was also a move to NT on my notebook.
> >
> > -Walden
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 4:53 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Converting Messages into Some Sort of Database...
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > JUST wondering (as I prepare to move to my 5th PC/3rd notebook in 3
> > years...); has ANYONE come upon a way to turn message "threads" into
> a
> >
> > database ?  I tend to keep a TON of messages from this list, divided
>
> > up
> > and saved into folders by area or something (i.e. Client Access,
> > Languages, etc.) because there is a TON of good information provided
>
> > by
> > this list and if I don't need it today, I'll need it next week, next
>
> > month, etc PLUS this is a good list of INVALUABLE contacts :-).
> >
> > It is getting to be more and more of a hassle to be moving e-mail
> from
> >
> > one computer to another (ESPECIALLY with my current move being to
> > NT...).
> >
> > ANYONE else done this, have any ideas, seen any tools ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance !!
> >
> > --
> > Chuck
> >
> > "The opinions that are shown, are exclusively my own. All my own,
> all
> > my
> > own..." and NOT my employer's (with apologies to Emerson, Lake and
> > Palmer)...
> >
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