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FreeMe is a tool for reducing e-mail clutter while highlighting messages of interest. In particular, FreeMe was designed for large HPC environments, in which there are many thousands of interacting components that experience failures asynchronously. During large-scale outages, administrators may receive overwhelming numbers of similar e-mails that may cause e-mails of unrelated failures to get lost in the shuffle and never resolved.
FreeMe allows each administrator to manage their own individual subscriptions with the ability to match full regular expressions against any e-mail field, providing fine-grained filtering. E-mails can either be processed as they are received in procmail-like fashion or read from an existing inbox. Options include ignoring uninteresting messages, having messages be resent on demand, or having them sent in a consolidated digest format, which dramatically reduces the number of messages received. Original e-mails are kept in a historical archive that can be queried on demand. FreeMe can also be used in a single-user configuration.