The Zoe explanation
Probably because I've written about "personal information managers," I've occasionally received e-mails about Zoe -- an innovative e-mail indexer. But I could never make much headway from Zoe's site toward figuring out exactly what it did. Now, thanks to this Jon Udell column from O'Reilly, I get it: Zoe Googles your e-mail stash, turning it into a permanently accessible, organized, useful, Web-formatted archive.
This is fantastic. I can't wait to set it up -- though "Release 0.2.6" makes one wary, and I worry how much volume it can handle. (There's quite a bit of old e-mail in my archives.) In the meantime, here's a bit from Udell's column:
| | ZOË doesn't aim to replace your email client, but rather to proxy your mail traffic and build useful search and navigation mechanisms. At the moment, I'm using ZOË together with Outlook (on Windows XP) and Entourage (on MacOSX). ZOË's POP client sucks down and indexes my incoming mail in parallel with my regular clients. (I leave a cache of messages on the server so the clients don't step on one another.) By routing my outbound mail through ZOË's SMTP server, it gets to capture and index that as well. |
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