Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-16 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Jack, On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:49:23 -0500 GMT (17/09/2000, 11:49 +0800 GMT), Jack LaRosa wrote: JL>>> I just looked at the preferences for my outbox and I have both the JL>>> "Remove old messages" and "Compress the folder" boxes checked. The JL>>> "keep nn messages/keep messages for nn days

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-16 Thread Jack LaRosa
Hello Thomas, On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:23:42 +0800 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:23:42 PM (GMT-6) my local time, you wrote: TF> Hi Jack, TF> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:21:32 -0500GMT (15/09/2000, 08:21 +0800GMT), TF> Jack LaRosa wrote: JL>> I just looked at the pre

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 1:56:31 PM, Peter wrote: > While the extra info really is lost (why not put some X-Bat-Flag > header into the messages when exporting?), the received time > should be correct (starting with version 1.42). Indeed, my mistake. Thanks for the correction. -- Best r

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Jack, On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:21:32 -0500GMT (15/09/2000, 08:21 +0800GMT), Jack LaRosa wrote: JL> I just looked at the preferences for my outbox and I have both the JL> "Remove old messages" and "Compress the folder" boxes checked. The JL> "keep nn messages/keep messages for nn days" boxes are

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Jack LaRosa
Hello Mark, On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:12:27 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:12:27 AM (GMT-6) my local time, you wrote: MRH> Ming-Li, MRH> Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000... ML>> On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote: >>> Ne

Re[2]: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread ztrader
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 1:49:42 PM, you wrote: PS> To be sure that TB! doesn't get confused, replace the little header PS> just after the boundary line with PS> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii PS> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PS> After these two lines leave an empty l

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Peter Steiner
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:47:03 -0700, ztrader wrote: z> (5) If I strip out the base64 coded part of attachments in the Unix z> file, but leave the 'boundary' lines to show that there was an z> attachment, will TB get confused by the 'boundary' lines still being z> in there, without the base64 part?

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Peter Steiner
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:27:51 -0700, Ming-Li wrote: >> (3) Is it easier to save as a Unix file instead? I'd prefer this >> as I then could strip off extra headers and save a bit of space. ML> If you don't care all the extra information (parked, flagged, ML> colored, replied marks and memo, etc.)

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 8:06:51 AM, Thomas wrote: > Yes, it does. "Keep zero messages" will only keep parked messages. > How about only ticking "On Exit: Compress Folder" and leaving > everything else unticked. This should get rid of deleted messages > I would think. Ok, then that's wha

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 8:11:07 AM, Thomas wrote: > I am perfectly aware of this from a programming POV. However, from > a user's POV, my database keeps growing and growing over years and > years, and I don't even know about it. > Shouldn't the Outbox be compressed by default? Maybe. I

Re[2]: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Mark R Harding
Ming-Li, Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000... ML> On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote: >> Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my >> Outbox now... just in case. :) ML> By "purge/compress" flag do you mean both the "Remove old messages

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Ming-Li, On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:42:46 -0700 GMT (14/09/2000, 22:42 +0800 GMT), Ming-Li wrote: ML> It's because TB moves sent messages from the Outbox folder to the ML> Sent folder the same way it moves other messages--by copying them ML> over and deleting the originals (it's basically what

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Ming-Li, On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:49:48 -0700 GMT (14/09/2000, 22:49 +0800 GMT), Ming-Li wrote: >> Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my >> Outbox now... just in case. :) ML> E.g., if I set the Outbox to keep zero message, and auto-purge on ML> exit, then would i

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:05:37 AM, Thomas wrote: MRH>> The big warning here is that the 'Outbox' folder under TB is MRH>> not set by default to automatically compress and purge. > Since the sent messages are copied to the Sent folder, this > surprises me on second thought. They are not

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:35:14 AM, Mark wrote: > The proper expression is... > "That's like bolting the stable door after the horse has > bolted." There's a similar saying in Chinese, but with "sheep" instead of horses. :) -- Best regards, Ming-Li The Bat! 1.46 Beta/6 | Win

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote: > Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my > Outbox now... just in case. :) By "purge/compress" flag do you mean both the "Remove old messages" and "Compress the folder" checkboxes or just the latter? I check only

Re[2]: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Mark R Harding
Thomas, Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000... MRH>> I believe horses have a relevant expression regarding stable doors and MRH>> bolting... TF> This must be an English expression... The proper expression is... "That's like bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted."

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Mark, On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:50:50 +0100 GMT (14/09/2000, 21:50 +0800 GMT), Mark R Harding wrote: MRH> The big warning here is that the 'Outbox' folder under TB is not set MRH> by default to automatically compress and purge. Since the sent messages are copied to the Sent folder, this surp

Re[2]: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Mark R Harding
Ming-Li, Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000... >> (1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and >> not the index file? If I then try to read the message file by >> itself, will it work without the index? ML> Yes, TB would recreate the index. ML> <...snip...> ML

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-14 Thread Ming-Li
On Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 4:47:03 PM, ztrader wrote: > I'd like to save old mail messages in TB format. > (1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and > not the index file? If I then try to read the message file by > itself, will it work without the index? Yes, TB

Re: Saving old mail?

2000-09-13 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi ztrader, On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:47:03 -0700GMT (14/09/2000, 07:47 +0800GMT), ztrader wrote: z> (1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and not z> the index file? If I then try to read the message file by itself, will z> it work without the index? If TB encounters a mes

Saving old mail?

2000-09-13 Thread ztrader
I'd like to save old mail messages in TB format. (1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and not the index file? If I then try to read the message file by itself, will it work without the index? (2) The files would be renamed (date, etc added to name). If I do this, can th