On 4/6/24 03:26, Chris M wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the
mailbox a certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1
on Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but,
if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have
previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving
email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine,
previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show
"Total count of files: 13720
Total size of files: 24.5GB"
I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more),
involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Hi Bret,
I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a
Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting.
And, in goggling alpine
"
Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP, NNTP and LDAP protocols natively.
Although it does not support composing HTML email, it can display emails
that only have HTML content as text. Alpine can read and write to
folders in several formats, including Maildir, mbox, the mh format used
by the mh message handling system, mbx, and MIX.
"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)
So, it appears to be able to deal with your mbox thingy.
alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, and, the
alpine mailing list includes the current named developer, and, others
who are highly knowledgeable of alpine.
And, alpine's predecessor, pine, has been around, and usable, since
before the Internet.
My current alpine email archive goes back more than 20 years. I was
using pine (and elm) on an IBM 3081 mainframe, in the early 1990's.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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