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[roland]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:58:33 +0100, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 11/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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 at cat.be