On 11/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 21:51 +0100, roland wrote: > 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. If you keep your mail in a recognised mail format (mailbox, maildir, etc.), then you can do all the things with it that a *decent* mailer provides, quite easily (reply, search through stored mail, sort in different ways, print it, etc.). But if you transpose it into some other format, you limit what you can do with it. I've been down that path before, of wanting to store messages in a way that didn't make me dependent on a particular client, or PC. Anything other than a decent mail client was a chore. You had to manually save everything you wanted to keep, or thought you might want to keep, sort it, and whatnot. These days I use a local IMAP server, and with an ordinary mail client on any local PC, I can find and read anything I've kept over the last few years. Now I've got a new chore coming up soon: Upgrading the mail server box without losing that. Not looking forward to it...
Which IMAP server do you use? I've been contemplating that for a long time. @roland: ps is not an email format. Keep your emails in an email format. Trust me on that one. You don't need to risk accidental corruption. If you open an mbox file in a text editor, you can read your email. You will see the header as well, but the text of the email is 100% readable. HTML mail is another animal: you will see the HTML code. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/426/rem.php
