Thanks so much, Ken. This is very helpful. In answer to your first query, it is related to the fact that I work at a lab whose main compionent, a particle accelerator, has been in operation for 50 years and is not ready to die. My mail goes back to 1992. It is an 18GB archive of a lot of stuff at this lab that though it is still relevant, others who may have known it have either already passed away or anyway were never comfortable with storing info in computers. In fact those of that generation would still print each email message and keep only the paper.
So though 99.9% of my content is useless, it still has some things of value. I'm 69 and will retire soon, so want to pass this on to a person who can simply take over my ID or import it into theirs. If I leave it in an unfamiliar and not-easily-searchable format, I might as well toss it now. As to the second question, I usually display messages on my Mac by date but threaded. So really old conversations appear as if they happened yesterday. This is annoying if I e.g. search for info on how a certain piece of hardware is supposed to function, and it lists old messages before newest ones. Another technique I could use is to convert all to web pages. I've done this in special cases in the past using mhonarc. Maybe I'll give this option more thought. mhonarc seems smarter that way than packf. Lastly, I am not sure why some messages have no date header, but they do have in common that they were my Sent copies. -- rick baartman, Head, Beam Physics Accelerator Division, TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T2A3 _______________________________________________ Exmh-users mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users
