[Tfug] Address books

[Gordon Zaft]

 Old-fashioned mailreaders (including Eudora, which I
use at home) store messages in mbox format, which is
pretty easily managed.  A few lines of Perl should
suffice :-)

G
--- Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2003 at 22:42, James Hood  wrote:
> 
> > I've use sylpheed-claws for quite a while and am
> very happy with it. It's just fast and does
> newsgroups too.
> > 
> > http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > A friend of mine says MozillaThunderbird is coming
> along very nicely as well.
> > 
> > http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
> 
> My problem with any mail app is that I use folders
> as a kind 
> of knowledge-base of saved tips, and in my current
> mail app 
> (Pegasus Mail in Windows, but it's also a 5-star app
> under 
> WINE) I have more than a gigabyte of stored mail.  I
> live in 
> email many days, and to move to another app is going
> to be 
> extremely painful.  What I need is a mail app that
> uses a 
> database (MySQL?  Interbase?) as the message store
> so I can 
> get at the stored data outside of email.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Angus
> 
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124
> +-----------------------------------+
> 
> 
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Gordon Zaft
zaft at zaft.org

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