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[Dotan Cohen]

On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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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