Zoë: Google your email
Now, this is clever.
Zoë is an app, written in Java, that runs as a proxy in the background, indexing, hyperlinking, archiving, full-text indexing and cataloguing all your mail.
It serves up the results as HTML pages that you access through your browser, either locally or remotely. Of course, you can also continue to use
Numerous reviewers call it an app that “googles your mail”. Dion Almaer puts it more colourfully:
Zoe is a really cool app that uses Lucene to index the hell out of your
This may not sound so attractive now that
Zoë is easy to install. The preference screen allows you to enter details about your mail accounts and to determine how your email will be displayed through customisable stylesheets:
Then Zoë begins to download copies of all your email. It handles POP and IMAP and can be set to leave copies on the server.
When done, it displays your email is a very useful way. The daily view is basically the same as the search view. Here is a page of search results:
All the emails that match the term are presented on the left, all the people who sent them on the upper right and all the attachments relating to the emails and all the URLs contained in them are presented underneath that on the bottom right. Swish.
Clicking on a name takes you to a list of all the emails from that person in your archive. It includes decoders for Word documents, PDFs and RTF files, which indexes and serves up as required.
You can read more about Zoë is a (three-year old) review by John Udell at O’Reilly Network.
Zo?ɬ� has been developed commercially as “Zo?ɬ� Professional” (take the tour here) but it also comes in a fully-featured freeware version.
[The screenshots in this entry were made with Paparazzi. Nice!]
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