{"id":3456,"date":"2003-09-15T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2003-09-15T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T11:49:53","slug":"zoe_stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few people have asked me how I set up ZOË<\/a>, so I thought I’d post it here. I’m not sure how much of a typical user I am. If you aren’t familiar with ZOË<\/a>, I think the about document<\/a> on the web site gives a pretty good description. You might also try reading some of the reviews that are listed on the reviews page<\/a>. One simple way to think about it is as a search engine for your email.<\/p>\n

WIth my current setup I read all my email with IMAP. So I have ZOË<\/a> point to my IMAP inbox and folders and index everything from there. I also store all of my sent mail on the IMAP server so that it gets indexed too. One thing ZOË<\/a> can do is be an SMTP server for you. It will accept email and forward it onto another server (like your ISP for instance). But there’s an issue with this that I’ll talk about later. I’ve also been slowly adding in RSS feeds that I really like into ZOË<\/a> so that it indexes them (though not all the RSS feeds I read).<\/p>\n

So far I’ve been running it for a few days and I really like it. I actually have some old old email sitting around on my old windows box that I’m going to upload to the server so that it will get indexed too. Okay, now for the parts of ZOË<\/a> that I think need improvement (and I’ll say again, that even with its flaws I think it is great).<\/p>\n

Okay, so the things I see as flaws in ZOË<\/a> (btw, to the author of ZOË<\/a>, feel free to think of these as suggestions ;), and also note that I have no idea how complex any of these would be to do. Knowing me, I’ve picked the things that are the hardest to change.).<\/p>\n