I opened a new project on SourceForge. It's called MAIF -- Mail Archive and Interchange Format. The idea is to promote a standard file format for email archiving and interchange that is simple, yet overcomes some of the problems with the Unix mbox format or other similar formats. Another goal is to develop open source software that works with MAIF files. I want to develop software for exporting and importing MAIF files from popular mail clients such as Outlook Express and Mozilla Mail. I also want to develop software to process the MAIF files: convert them to HTML, sort them, filter them, and so on. (I just searched for the project on SourceForge, and it doesn't come up under a search. I guess I have some work to do before it's really public.)
Posted by Doug Sauder at June 8, 2002 12:31 PM