Re: opera

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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.

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