Sunday, January 27, 2002, 5:53:14 PM, Joseph N. wrote: > Now I use Mailbag Assistant (which > someday might soon export into Unix fomat), and am very pleased at its > ability to sort mail and create subsets from the sort results. If I > need to find something from an archive, I open it in Mailbag Assistant > and search. If I'm unsure what archive it's in, Mailbag Assistant > will open them all and let me search and create a view of only the > search results. ---
FWIW, I tried Mailbag Assistant (MBA), but I had to discount it because I couldn't get it to work in a way that made sense to me. I prefer to work in folders and having an "Archive" account in TB that mirrors the structure of my main accounts works well. Of course, when the message bases get very large, I may need to rethink my strategy but, until then, it works. MBA can't read Unix mailboxes and it derives its internal mailbox name from the name of the file that contains the message text. All TB message bases have the name "messages.tbb", so MBA dumps all those messages into an internal folder with the name "Messages" -- so it doesn't matter how many folders you have because MBA effectively merges them. I also tried exporting from TB to individual .msg files. Then, creating mailboxes from filenames, MBA created lots of mailboxes called "00000001", "00000002", ... Each folder contained files with the same name but from different directories. So, it placed ".\base1\00000001.msg" in the same mailbox as ".\base2\00000001.msg", which ensures that no two messages exported from the same TB folder can exist in the same MBA mailbox! At that point, I wrote to Eric and, after his reply, gave up on MBA. However, it is possible that Eric will add Unix mailboxes to the supported formats and, if he does, I'll be one of the first to sign up. -- Geoff Lane Cornwall, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using The Bat! v1.53d on Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6 -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
