Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > It all depends on the work habits of the individual user. > >>> > >>> Well, you can say that about anything, right? The OP asked what > >>> he was missing, so he's soliciting the opinions of people with > >>> different work habits. > >> Exactly. I asked because I'm certain that there are those with > >> more experience and more efficient workflows than myself. So I > >> ask. > > > > I come from the dark ages. For me, it's important that the tools > > I use write files that anything can deal with, not just the app > > which created them. Mutt handles any standard form of mail box > > format, including on_some_other_server(don't much care how), > > aka. imap. > > > > The guis, in my experience, save in their own format (If you let > > them? > > That's just not true. > > Well, ok, it's *partially* true: Outlook stores mail in a > But Netscape and it's descendants all use mbox as the native format,
As you're well aware :-), Lookout! doesn't count here. I was thinking tbird. I recently tried to help a noob slurp in his old tbird mails. Are you saying that data file was mbox?!? It looked binary to me. > PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals ACK! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
