Most (if not all) email management software
currently uses storage formats that are not
suitable for direct archiving. Xineo XMA (XML Mail
Archiver) aims to provide a simple way to archive
messages in XML under a well-specified schema, in
order to make this data durably and easily
accessible to users and third-party software. In
order to handle as many input formats as possible,
it relies on the JavaMail API, which means that it
is able to archive mails from POP3 and IMAP
servers, MBOX, MailDir, and MH file formats using
third-party providers (MBOX included with XMA
distribution), as well as any JavaMail supported
mail providers. XML schemas are specified using
XSchema. The distribution also includes sample
XSLT and CSS stylesheets that can be used to
visualize the exported messages.
