I've got emails going back as far as the early 90s and currently they are spread through various backups of TB, pst files, even a load of mac emails.
I currenly have around 9 or 10 accounts (as I have several websites) and I'm accessing them all via IMAP in Thunderbird on Windows 7 as well as OS X (hackintosh partition). I also have linux mint on a netbook, but as yet I've not tried configuring mail.
I have VPS hosting with cpanel and whm.
Over the past few days I have been manually importing mails with TB and sending them to the various IMAP folders. This of course is a very time consuming process.
But now I am wondering if it is better to create some kind of archive that could still be accessible via mail clients on various OSes - for example gmail. My issue with gmail, however, is security so im wondering if the same thing could be achieved locally.
I have 5 computers presently.
- main work machine (win7 / os-x)
- File server (win 7)
- HTPC (win 7)
- Netbook (linix mint)
- Backup server (slow mini-itx running vista)
I'm thinking that I could maybe use the back-up server for this - currently I just turn it on once a week and sync a lot of folders from the various networked machines. I could also consider using linux on it - but I am really not familair with linux, command line stuff etc. (I'm still playing with mint on the netbook, just to get familiar with it).
I'd be interested to hear any ideas or suggestions on what I could do about this.
