-- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 05:29 PM -0800): > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 14:16]: > > > > Any pronto mua users here? > > You could grep this mailbox for User-Agent headers...
... and you'll likely find about half of them use mutt... ;-) > > <snip>... I am working on moving a 2GB, ~1000000 > > message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian > > woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape mail in an convenient and > > elaborate hierarchy of folders sometimes (10) or more levels deep. > > > > I'm testing mutt; but, I have not found as convenient a solution to the > > many nested subfolder syndrome, especially regarding the navigation of > > folders from within mutt. What don't you like about the navigation? What kind of mail format are you using (Maildir, mbox, MH...)? I use IMAP (more on that below), and I like the ability to define mailboxes I use regularly for 'one stop shopping', as well as being able to navigate my "tree" when I want to. Best yet, I can do it all from my keyboard.... Is that the part you don't like -- that it's console-based? If so, mutt definitely *isn't* for you. However, give it a try -- I was a die-hard GUI mail-reader fanatic, but was constantly getting frustrated with the memory and CPU overhead of GUI apps (I'm on a 366Mhz machine that, until recently, had minimal memory). I forced myself to try mutt for a couple weeks, and I've never gone back. > > Further investigation shows that pronto supports nested subfolders; but, > > <http://www.muhri.net/pronto/> has not revealed much detail. I used Pronto! for a few months a couple years ago, and recall liking it. What I *didn't* like is that I recall it storing messages in a MySQL database -- however, I see it now has support for mbox and Maildir, so that's a moot issue. However, because it *did* use a database, the programmer had done a nice job with nested folders (I think every programmer at some point tries their hand at trees and folders). <snip> > As a side note, I can recommend that the most convenient way I've found > to transport mail from proprietary stores (outlook, etc.) to righteous > ones is via an IMAP server. Should you decide to just move everything > to the IMAP store and keep it there, this gives you the advantage of > being able to access the same data and folder hierarchy from whatever > MUA you feel like at any time (and from whatever site, no less). I *heartily* second this! For several years, I kept trying just about every new mailer I came across because the one I was using didn't have X feature, or because the new mailer had this new cool Y feature... I can't tell you how many times I had to move mail stores from one app to another or one format to another.... Ugghh! Finally I got the idea to throw up an IMAP server, and it made these "conversions" so much easier, as I never had to worry about the backend -- just the frontend. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
