Hello Anthony, Thursday, August 25, 2005, 1:36:55 AM, you wrote:
AGA> Another happy user of TB, I gather? I'm running an ancient version... 1.60q. I had been using Linux Red Hat as my Internet Gateway for quite a while, so I never bothered to upgrade TB!, as it was just lying dormant on my Win2k graphics workstation, but I recently upgraded to SBC-Yahoo DSL for my Internet connection, so I dusted of The Bat!, and put it back in service. It is really my favourite MUA, but I think it was developed in a non-*nix-friendly language, so unfortunately there will probably never be a *nix release for it. As soon as I figure out how to get SBC DSL to play nicely with Red hat, I will probably put TB! back into mothballs, and go back to using Thunderbird, which is the best *nix currently has to offer, but is not in the same class as TB!. AGA> It worries me a bit that e-mail programs in general seem to make very AGA> little provision for selectively archiving or restoring message base AGA> content. Eventually you end up with tremendously large mailboxes, and AGA> if there's no way to selectively archive and extract stuff and AGA> optionally restore it, eventually you're stuck, with or without AGA> backups. I remember way back in the old CompuServe days (early 1990's, there was just such an application called FileCab, IIRC, for archiving Forum messages independent of WinCim 2.6.1. I have been archiving those few emails I need to keep in long term storage as re-named text files, in a regular directory tree, along with their related non-email counterparts, so that, for instance, The keys and other related email docs for my various downloaded applications are stored in the folders with the downloaded binaries, and the emails related to individual customer jobs and purchases are stored in individual folders with my notes and images for those individual customers, and jobs. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
