On Thu, 25 May 2017 05:20:11 -0400, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: >each >of the FPC related mailing lists comes into my thunderbird and is filtered to >its own (sub)folder where the messages are read in threaded mode... it is >faster >and available to me even when i'm offline... plus i have a local copy of all >the >messages so i can search historically if desired...
Which is exactly how a newsreader works too, you download the messages into the NR and then they are available offline forever and searchable too. My FPC message store reaches back to Sept 2003 and similarly for Borland/Embarcadero Delphi lists (might go even further back on these). I have ALL messages from these places collected for future reference. But my observation is that email is not the best way of managing these things even if you *can* create some folder structure. Email clients evolve a lot and suddenly your old store of messages is not readable anymore. And if you like to switch mail client you are in big trouble. Try to import Outlook PST files with millions of messages into Thunderbird and you will see what I mean... Both Forte Free Agent and Xananews store the data in a sensible format... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other