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A Utility I Want

July 11, 2006 By Jason Kolb 2 Comments

I would love a utility that connects Outlook to Amazon S3 so that I can push a button combo in Outlook and send the email to S3 where I can search the emails saved there at a later time, a la Gmail.  It would keep my inbox clean and provide an online repository for emails I might want later, which is the one reason I keep using Gmail.  Searching Outlook and backing up PST files, or cleaning out my inbox when using Exchange, just blows; it feels like I have to crank-start my car when keyed ignitions are plentiful and common.

If somebody would like to write such a thing I would be forever grateful :)

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  • Walter

    Why don't you just set up another Gmail account to serve as an archive? Why use S3 to store email when Gmail already does a fine job of it?

  • http://profile.typekey.com/jasonkolb/ jasonkolb

    Forwarding emails from my regular email account to Gmail seems kludgy to me. I'd rather have some type of plugin in Outlook that would shuttle flagged emails to external storage where they can be searched at some later time.