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okay, so i’m giving elGoog desktop a test ride - and while i greatly enjoy crapping on elGoog, this thing isn’t too bad…though you’ve gotta turn off the web monitoring thing where it caches every pore of the internet’s corpulent self, and in the advanced features, remember to disable “request urine and hair sample’…but then it dawned on me: yet another company has ignored eudora! have you ever tried eudora? they’ve got more users than nader has supporters!…but when it comes to search, they blow beefy chunks…it can take almost 4 months to search through 80 messages…so with tears streaming from my laptop-reddened eyes, i searched for something better…at first, i discovered one dedicated eudora mail search tool from isys …but it’s like 30 bucks, and that’s 30 more than zero…and i already told you why x1 sucks, for 99 bucks, even if it does search eudora too...

so yeah, i start wasting time on research, put on my blue adidas hoodie and travel back in time nearly a decade (1996) to when this smart guy named tom gitlin developed an early mail to text converter for a whole buncha geeks who wanted to run easier backups on unix machines…actually, his mail2text tool converts to either text or html…but ouch! his site is all gone, and all that i could find was the page within archive.org which does not host the downloadable files anymore…and the other mail2html solution from monharc requires way too much reading (if you gotta turn the page, then the directions are too long)…

…so i found the original gitlin file myself, and according to the license, i may freely distribute the zip file, which is the full app - you can now download it right here by clicking THIS TEXT for mail2txt - but i take no responsibility for issues which you might experience or whatever else happens…and please let me know if you can track down tom gitlin so that i can send him his money for using this!!!! thanks…

here’s what i suggest: unzip the file, then go to ‘my documents‘ and create a folder called ‘myemails‘ (something easy)…launch mail2text and when it opens up, you’ll have to go through each and every folder and then click up top to convert each to text - once you do that, it will be picked up by elGoog desktop search…why export as TEXT files instead of html? simple reason: you can use the “filetype:text” command in front of your keyword to primarily search your now-archived emails (if you use html, there are cooler archives with thread links, but they’ll get mixed up with all of your other shit in the cache)….oh, and btw, it does not auto-update, you gotta do that yourself regularly if you wanna keep it real baby…

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