[Tfug] Address books

[Harry McGregor]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:37, Angus Scott-Fleming 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.

I think Pegasus uses mbox format for it's folders.  You can convert
these to maildir with mb2md (A small script)

What I have done is move almost 100% to IMAP (my usgs.gov address only
supports Lotus Notes and POP3 currently), and store all of my mail in
Maildir format on the servers.

espri.arizona.edu account: 1.2GB
zappa.osef.org account 1: 403MB
zappa.osef.org account 2: 795MB
actlabs account: 20MB
azintl.edu: 163MB

Evolution does a great job of dealing with the mail, but I would suggest
procmail filters and hord web interface as well.

			Harry
> Any ideas?
> 
> Angus
> 
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> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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