"Joseph S. Barrera III" wrote:
>
> Rohit Khare writes:
> > BJ doesn't get it. Data lives forever. Programs are only mortal.
>
> Okay, may I do a little poll, and ask everyone in what format they
> keep their megabytes (or gigabytes) of mail?
Gigabytes (about 2), in mbox.
>
> I'm just now going through the very painful process of converting all
> my outlook mail into open (non-microsoft) format. Right now I'm
> converting to Berkeley "^From " format -- it's kind of a poor format,
There is an enhanced mbox that uses the content-length header to avoid
the "^From " quoting. Another spinoff of mbox (from SCO I believe) uses
'^A^A^A^A' between each message.
> requiring the >'ing of any other "^From "s in messages. The only other
> alternative I would currently consider is mh format, with a file for
> each message. I used to use (and like) mh at CMU, and I have managed
> to get nmh to build for NT/cygwin, but I'm currently attached to
> emacs/vm and it doesn't understand mh format and I'm not sure I would
> like emacs/mh as well.
I access email through Imap so that the browser caches and indexes are
throw away, and so I can walk up to any of my 12 computers in the house
and access the same email in the same way. I believe that Netscape uses
berkeley db indexes/email files, but no need to worry about that.
MH format is rediculous unless you are using ReiserFS where small files
are so efficient it's not a problem at all.
> Okay, too many details. But mail is pretty important and I'm
> interested in how others deal with their mail immortality issues.
>
> - Joe
I've often thought that the solution is a micro-Imap server that local
clients connect to and then a movemail like system to grab mail from
'real' mailboxes (via pop3, imap, whatever).
sdw
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