you should try using database repositories, wash my mouth out with soap, but using the jdbc/odbc bridge you could get all your email into an access database. (sorry for that, if it was in bad taste)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 5:57 PM > To: James Developers List > Subject: RE: POP3 in James 2.0a2 > > > Its long been my holy grail to find an alternative to large > stores of .pst files on Windows. I want to be able to use a mac, > a pc, and a sun at home and a pda like a 9210 on the road. The > *only* thing that keeps me using Windows is these mail databases > in .pst format going back to 1995. The marvellous thing about the > .pst is you can move one file and it moves all your data. Of > course its a tremendous weakness too and its not particularly > cross platform. > > So my interest in james is primarily to find a mail server that > uses a neutral database and import all my old mail into it and > access it from satandard protocols or clients. > > I know I dont need this stuff often - but when you need someones > email address from 3 years ago it would be nice to look it up > somewhere online rather than wait till you got home to fire up an old pc.. > > So I would love to see expanded support for mail repositories. > > Angus > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 25 November 2001 17:34 > > To: James Developers List > > Subject: RE: POP3 in James 2.0a2 > > > > > > I agree, James was already using the Avalon format when I came to > > it, but I think interoperability could be enhanced if it used, at > > least optionally, file formats compatible with other s'ware. > > d. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 11:15 AM > > > To: James Developers List > > > Subject: Re: POP3 in James 2.0a2 > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > While I am sure the Avalon peeps would love you to fix any > issues I was > > > always surprised that James never used one of the more standard mail > > > repository file formats. Theres a whole bunch of formats like > > > MBox, maildir > > > and so forth that are much more suited to mail storage. It may be > > > a good time > > > to transfer to use one of these formats at this time ? > > > > > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:24, Danny Angus wrote: > > > > I'm looking at db connection pooling at work just now, and > > the filename > > > > bugs really annoy me, so I'd agree, unless we could > contribute back to > > > > Avalon. d. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 6:00 AM > > > > > To: James Developers List > > > > > Subject: Re: POP3 in James 2.0a2 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd guess this is a result of the Avalon upgrade. The new file > > > > > repositories > > > > > in Avalon affix a Reposity[number] suffix, where [number] is > > > based on the > > > > > order in your conf file. So if file://var/mail/inbox in the 6th > > > > > repository > > > > > in your conf file, the stream files will be named > > > > > 4329874928374.Repository6.StreamStore. > > > > > > > > > > The problem this creates is that if you change a file > > > repository to a db > > > > > repository (any non-file repository), Avalon will number the > > > > > remaining file > > > > > repositories differently. So for example, > > file://var/mail/inbox might be > > > > now the 4th repository, so it won't see > > > > 4329874928374.Repository6.StreamStore because its looking for > > > > 4329874928374.Repository4.StreamStore. > > > > > > > > Between the Excalibur code not pooling db connections and these file > > > > repository changes, I'm thinking we should just copy that > > code into the > > > > James project and make it stable the way we need it to be. > > > > Continue to use > > > > the rest of Avalon, but this code that is largely out of our > > control is > > > > slowing releases. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Pete > > > > ------------------------- > > All things considered, > > insanity may be the only > > reasonable alternative. > > ------------------------- > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
