Googling your email
Despite all the buzz about Gmail, there are other email search engines. Two years ago at the London MacExpo, I went to a presentation by Creo on their email search engine, Six Degrees. At that time, Six Degrees was a stand-alone application, which could only import email from Microsoft’s Entourage. I didn’t use Entourage, but even so, I was excited by the possibilities of the software. Now Creo have launched Six Degrees 2.0, and there are some major changes. It runs as a local server (Jakarta Tomcat, to be precise) which you connect to using your web browser, and sift through the database using an HTML front-end. Better still, you can now import mail from a variety of different email clients, and also Unix mbox files, which should make importing possible from any application. It can also check POP and IMAP servers directly and sync with IMAP folders, so that once you have imported your old email, it will update its database automatically as new messages are delivered and sent.
