One alternative, depending on your goal, is the following:
From this list there are often parts of messages I wish to save; but
I don't need to save all the post-message stuff from the list server
and some parts of the message. What I do is the following:
1. In Keyword, create a file to hold the message extracts.
2. Open your e-mail. When you find something you want to save,
block the part of the message to be saved as you would block
information in a Keyword file.
3. Copy the block to the clipboard.
4. Switch tasks, either with space and dots 2,3,5 followed by w for
wordprocessor or by hitting enter and backspace with w (to go to Keyword.
5. If you haven't done anything in Keyword since setting up the file
to hold the extracts, switching tasks should put you right in that
file. Otherwise, find and go into the extract file and find the
place where you want to store the block you've copied to the
clipboard. Paste the block where you want it.
6. You can now switch tasks again, in the reverse direction, to get
back to e-mail.
This sounds like a lot of work; and it is. But it has two
advantages. First, it usually allows me to delete the e-mail, thus
frreeing up database space and speeding up later e-mail
downloads. Second, it allows me to organize the useful information
from e-mails so that I can find it later with minimal delay. The
disadvantage is that you don't have an actual e-mail message anymore
to forward, reply to, etc. You can avoid this problem, of course, by
just keeping the message. But for me, at least, with Keysoft 6.11,
keeping more than a small number of e-mail messages really slows down
e-mail downloads and reduces significantly the number of messages
which can be downloaded at one time. I suspect part of the reason
for this is that any kept message is actually stored, at least in
part, in the received folder, the all folder, and the folder where
you save it. So deleting a message from a folder where you've saved
it is, in a way, like deleting three messages. Do this often enough
and you start to notice significant improvements in the speed of
Keymail performance, not just in downloading but also in saving or
deleting messages.
At 01:08 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
Hi Al and list,
I don't think this can be done since your Email is in the
database. What you can do is save the text of your Email to a
file. While in the Email message, you can type spacebar with S and
follow the prompts. You can save as a .txt or .brf file as
examples, then those newly saved files can go on your flash
card. That's the only way I have been able to save Email thus
far. Perhaps something more is coming up with 7.0.
Jim
At 09:51 AM 10/04/2005 , you wrote:
Hello again,
Earlier I posted a message to the list regarding the transferrance
of email messages from the inbox to an external storage card to
which I got several responses, none of which worked.
Upon further study I have discovered that my manual chapter
11, E-mail, subsection 11.9, Setup options suggests that their
should be four choices: "Directory of E-mail Accounts", Receive
Options", "Free Database Space" and "Change E-mail storage
location?" I can find no further reference to what would be the 4th
choice, Change E-mail storage location. Also when I go into
keymail's options I do not have that 4th option. Am I missing
something? Any assistance from Humanware would be appreciated.
Again, I am using KS 6.11 with BNBT32.
Albert Sanchez, W A 7 F X B/4
IRLP Node 4000
Al's Piano Tuning & Repair
703-933-9303
----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: transferring email messages
Hi All,
I am using a BNBT with KS 6.11 and am interested in transferring
some email messages from the inbox on my BN's flash disk to an
external storage compact card. Is this possible, and if so, where
do I find it in the manual?
Yours cordially
Albert Sanchez, W A 7 F X B/4
IRLP Node 4000
Al's Piano Tuning & Repair
703-933-9303,
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