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[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:

>Mine are in whatever format Eudora uses with "Old Style" TOC files.

TOC files are just "Table of Contents" files - extra personal settings, 
like labels, etc. The actual mail is stored in the .mbx files - gosh, 
rather looks like it might mean "mbox" maybe?

;-) ;-)

Altho the first line (the "From _person_ _date_ _etc_" line) is a little 
different (The envelope sender is always "???@???" & whatnot) they're 
standard mbox and can be transferred to & read by any (well, any that I've 
used, anyway) *nix mailreader that can handle mbox... Well, just be wary of 
the ^M floating around; dos2unix or tr/// can help here. I use mutt, 
myself; it ignores them fairly well.

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And... Rumor has it that John Robertson may have mentioned these words:
>The biggest problem I have with the list is the sheer volume of messages. 
>My mail reader is Eudora and I do wish it could treat this list the same 
>way that Agent or Unison treats newsgroup messages - threads sorted by 
>dates. Or is there a way that I am missing buried in Eudora?

Overall, so do I, as it seems even Thunderchicken still can't do that - 
it'll thread, but it won't reshuffle old threads with new messages to the 
top/bottom of the stack; at least as far as I've seen.

Eudora does have a handy little keyboard trick with the [alt] key: If you 
hold [alt] and click on a name in the From: column, it will go grab all of 
the mail in that folder from that person (well, with the exact same From: 
header, anyway) and stack them (highlighted) right where you clicked 
without reshuffling the rest of the pack. Makes it easy to say "Boy, that 
'Merch' guy is a twit. I'll get rid of everything he's ever sent. [alt] 
click on my name, and hit the delete key. All my blathering is now in the 
trash. ;-)

It works the same for subject, so it'll "almost, kinda, maybe" thread stuff 
- except when someone changes the subject line, or if the RE: Fw: RE: FWD: 
RE[2]: stuff gets all wonky Eudora can't track thru it all.... Not perfect, 
but it's still pretty handy.

Eudora is still tops with filtering - tho Thunderchicken is getting closer, 
finally... ;-) This is with Eudora 5.1, BTW.

Speaking of mail - qmail 1.0 just turned 10 years old! It's not "kewl" so 
it's still offtopic (most everyone's running 1.03 anyway -- gosh - 3 minor 
updates in a decade! Why can't Microsoft do that??? ;-) but just one of 
those little interesting (to me) datapoints...

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | "Profile, don't speculate."
SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers |     Daniel J. Bernstein
zmerch at 30below.com          |