On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:58:33 +0100, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
I do not use an IMAP server because I use ltsp, where everything happens
on the server. That way I allways have a backup of any mail. Offcourse
something like a IMAP server would do things nicer, but I don't enough
arguments to invest the time to install and maintain an IMAP server.
Offcourse .ps is not an email format, but once you have stored the email
in whatever format why should you reply to it or do something a mailer
does. I only store the mail as a .ps after being sure of the importance.
Before, in my outlook time, I had nice boxes for every subject or issue I
could think off, but the thing kept on growing, and I never found the time
to clean it. And then ....
With .ps files I can search for all the files older then, .. or things
like that. Probably I will write a program to keep track of all these
email files. And because I store all the webpages in the same directories
I will have some nice doc-system, I hope.
Probably I don't know anymore what is right or wrong. Just keep on trying.
Roland
Roland Brouwers
roland@xxxxxx
