On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:43:34 +0100, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So right-mouse-clicking is the only way, to my opinion.
Nowedays I store every mail as a .ps(printjob) in seperated
subject-directories. Therefore I will be independant from mail clients
( I
am sick of those compatiblity issues)
What?!?
Or am I wrong?
Roland, my friend, you are wrong. I agree that you _must_ store the
mail in an open, documented file
format that is not encoumbered by proprietary licensing and
bs,bs,bs...
That's why you should store the mail in Plain Text- UTF-8 encoded
preferably. That's exacly what the mbox format is, a plain text file
of all you emails (in a given folder) seperated by two newlines and
their own headers. This is a very standard format, and everything that
I know of (Except Outlook and possibly Eudora) support it. In a dire
emergency, you could even open them in pine or vi (or nano!).
I agree that one can open an .mbs file in whatever.But why whould I open
the email in another emailclient, when I have the text as it is in a .ps
file, which is very readable, which I can transform very easely
into .pdf and/or send to a printer. Suppose I would go back to outlook
for whatever stupid or non-stupid reason, I couldn't open the .mbs file.
When I would open the file in vi or gedit or emacs I whould see a lot of
sh.. on the screen, which has to do with the email but nothing with the
message content.
Am I right?
Roland
