On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:16:08 +0200 (EET) Nerijus Baliunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

NB> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:41:17 +0100 (Romance Standard Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
NB> 
NB> VZ> PD> Up to now, saving a MSG onto the file system requires to open a dialog box
NB> VZ> PD> "Save as ...'(*). This is a slow process.
NB> VZ> 
NB> VZ>  But required because you have to enter a filename somewhere.
NB> 
NB> Subject can be used for a filename. IIRC Outlook does that.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:16:34 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

R> Uhm, you simply could use the Subject line (made unique by appending some
R> number if necesseary of course).

 Ok, I admit that I didn't think about this. So yes, it is indeed possible.
It still seems a bit strange to me but it could be done and relatively
simply. If someone is interested enough in this, please enter a request in
the bug tracker.

R> Nevertheless sometimes it would be handy to deal with the message store
R> like a directory of files. e.g. I would like to factor out some of my old mails 
into an archive
R> that can be burned onto CD rom. (And then be able of offline reading and searching 
the 
R> archive of course.) The message store is in a common unix
R> format isn't it?

 It depends. By default a not very standard (but open, documented, and
recognized by a few other clients) MBX format is used because it is most
efficient. But you can use MBOX and, as a matter of fact, I do because even
if it slower I like to be able to grep my mailboxes.

 There is also support for MH (where a mailbox is a file system directory
and each message is a file in it) but the driver for this format is poor
that I can't recommend it. I'd like to have a better MH driver but this is
not that easy to do and it's not high enough in my list of priorities.

 Regards,
VZ



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