Hawk Wings » literature http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using Mail.app as a document archive http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/23/using-mailapp-as-a-document-archive/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/23/using-mailapp-as-a-document-archive/#comments Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:40:52 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/23/using-mailapp-as-a-document-archive/ pushkinMaciej Ceglowski decided to use Mail.app to archive the early letters of Alexander Pushkin , in part inspired by the Samuel Pepys Blog and in part because email clients offer built-in search and sort features.

It went quite well, but didn’t completely satisfy:

I had to bump the date up by 200 years because Mail.app refuses to properly sort nineteenth century email. I consider this a bug.

He plans to set up an IMAP server to store this kind of information as emails. And he is looking for good sources of material.mail.app, apple mail, pushkin, literature, archiving, searching, sorting

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