On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Bret Busby wrote: > On 4/6/24 03:26, Chris M wrote: >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote: >>>> I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox >>>> format to store emails. >>>> It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. >>>> >>>> Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the >>>> mailbox a certain size? >>>> or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? >>>> >>>> The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 >>>> on Windows 10. And you had >>>> to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption. >>>> >>>> I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done >>>> reading emails. >>>> >>>> Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at: >>>> >>>> Number Of Messages: 4776 >>>> >>>> Size: 300 MB >>>> >>> >>> I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but, >>> if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have >>> previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving >>> email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine, >>> previously known as pine. >>> >>> The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show >>> "Total count of files: 13720 >>> Total size of files: 24.5GB" >>> >>> I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more), >>> involving some thousands of filter parameter field values. >>> >>> >>> >>> .... >>> Bret Busby >>> Armadale >>> Western Australia >>> (UTC+0800) >>> ................. >>> >>> >> Hi Bret, >> >> I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a >> Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting. >> >> > > And, in goggling alpine > > " > Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP, NNTP and LDAP protocols natively. > Although it does not support composing HTML email, it can display emails > that only have HTML content as text. Alpine can read and write to > folders in several formats, including Maildir, mbox, the mh format used > by the mh message handling system, mbx, and MIX. > " > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client) > > So, it appears to be able to deal with your mbox thingy. > > alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, and, the > alpine mailing list includes the current named developer, and, others > who are highly knowledgeable of alpine. > > And, alpine's predecessor, pine, has been around, and usable, since > before the Internet. > > My current alpine email archive goes back more than 20 years. I was > using pine (and elm) on an IBM 3081 mainframe, in the early 1990's.
i started using pine in the 90's on hpux still using alpine and no problems
