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On Friday, September 4 at 09:49 PM, quoth Chris G:
>Depending on what/who created the maildir hierarchy you may
>find it virtually impossible to move directories (which aren't
>real directories) and mailboxes around.
[snip]
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On Friday, September 4 at 04:43 PM, quoth Thomas Baker:
> I frequently edit entire threads in order to circulate their
> contents -- with redundant quotes and attachments removed and
> headers pruned -- as digests. I wouldn't know how to do that
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> > ever wanted to do.
>
> I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
> easy. W
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, September 4 at 06:27 PM, quoth Chris G:
> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening
> an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
> rewriting the whole mbox.
>
> >>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> > anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> > ever wanted to do.
>
> I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
> easy. With mutt I do occasionally edit messages:
>
> - to use a
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On Friday, September 4 at 04:09 PM, quoth Dave Dodge:
> - to remove uneeded attachments when archiving a discussion thread.
>For example a co-worker produces some software my own project
>depends on, and has lately been mailing me prereleas
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> ever wanted to do.
I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
easy. With mutt I do occasionally edit messages:
- to use a message in my in
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:41:48AM -0700, George Davidovich wrote:
> The mbox format does have advantages but there can be as many
> disadvantages. The general consensus here seems to be to rely on mbox
> for archives and use maildir (by default) for everything else.
Well, I'm quite used to mbox
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:07:50PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > I can move email files around just like any another
> > > data .doc or .xls files, and I can archive the email for a
> > > project together with all the other data files
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On Friday, September 4 at 06:27 PM, quoth Chris G:
- reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening
an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
rewriting the whole mbox.
>>> Possibly faster for a *
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I can move email files around just like any another
> > data .doc or .xls files, and I can archive the email for a
> > project together with all the other data files.
>
> You might want to consider switching to Maildir.
>
> Maildir u
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:08:45PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, September 4 at 05:32 PM, quoth Chris G:
> >> The advantages are:
> >>
> >> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an
> >> mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
> >> rewriting
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On Friday, September 4 at 05:32 PM, quoth Chris G:
>> The advantages are:
>>
>> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an
>> mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
>> rewriting the whole mbox.
>>
> Pos
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that
> > thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.:
> >
> > 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that
> thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.:
>
> 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.mbox
>
> I run a shell script to add a reference to that file to the
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:02:47PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote:
> > So that when I clicked on a link such as:
> >
> >
> > Foobar
> >
> >
> > in Firefox, it woul
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