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Client: Richard Watts, Kynesim <rrw@semiramis.org.uk>

Everybody has a different approach to organising email and documents, but nobody has time to do it properly. Your challenge is to create a new kind of mail-plus client that uses unsupervised machine learning techniques to help run a small business. It should recognise clusters of email that the user can deal with as a batch, using the IMAP protocol to create and populate archive folders on the mail server, or (if feeling brave) automatically reply to them. Since much email content simply repeats existing documents (whether as attachments or with repeated text), your system should also scan for valuable data that is *not* in the email archive - for example as disk files or on the local network. These ought to be archived too, and somehow associated with relevant email. But take care not to waste space by backing up too many similar copies - prioritise information that seems to be important and unique.