On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:22 +0100, roland wrote:
> 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.
You've never felt the need to send an email to someone that you'd once
corresponded to, yonks ago?
> 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.
Re-inventing the wheel... Fair enough if every email client you've used
seems hopeless, but there are some with good databasing abilities (able
to find, sort, store, etc.).
On a prior system I had mine set up thus:
* Sort mailing lists into their own folders.
* Each folder only *displayed* the last few days mail, by default,
so I didn't have to wade through the chaff, but could find the
beginnings of a thread if I needed to.
* Some folders kept all mail I didn't purposely delete.
* Some folders automatically purged mail older than a few months,
unless I'd deliberately flagged it to be kept (messages I
considered important at some time).
* I could also mark the importance of some messages.
* I could search for messages using various criteria in
combination (dates, subjects, senders, recipients, importance,
etc.).
* And even without searching, there's the sorting of threads into
the logical order.
* I could delete attachments, and rip out HTML additions to the
plain text versions.
All of that being done by programs that already exist, by someone who
had put a lot of thought into what an e-mail program ought to be able to
do. Unfortunatley, I've not found a Linux mail client that meets my
needs. No, a text-based one is not suitable, before some suggests one.
The next version of Eudura will be TB-based, and will work on Linux. I
am waiting for that almost like I am waiting for my first born (wife
is in her ninth month).
Dotan Cohen
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