Hallo Jack,
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:49:23 -0500 GMT (17/09/2000, 11:49 +0800 GMT),
Jack LaRosa wrote:
JL I just looked at the preferences for my outbox and I have both the
JL "Remove old messages" and "Compress the folder" boxes checked. The
JL "keep nn messages/keep messages for nn days" boxes
Hello Thomas,
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:23:42 +0800 GMT your local time, which was
Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:23:42 PM (GMT-6) my local time,
you wrote:
TF Hi Jack,
TF On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:21:32 -0500GMT (15/09/2000, 08:21 +0800GMT),
TF Jack LaRosa wrote:
JL I just looked at the
Hi ztrader,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:47:03 -0700GMT (14/09/2000, 07:47 +0800GMT),
ztrader wrote:
z (1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and not
z the index file? If I then try to read the message file by itself, will
z it work without the index?
If TB encounters a
On Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 4:47:03 PM, ztrader wrote:
I'd like to save old mail messages in TB format.
(1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and
not the index file? If I then try to read the message file by
itself, will it work without the index?
Yes, TB
Ming-Li,
Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000...
(1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and
not the index file? If I then try to read the message file by
itself, will it work without the index?
ML Yes, TB would recreate the index.
ML ...snip...
ML Also
Hallo Mark,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:50:50 +0100 GMT (14/09/2000, 21:50 +0800 GMT),
Mark R Harding wrote:
MRH The big warning here is that the 'Outbox' folder under TB is not set
MRH by default to automatically compress and purge.
Since the sent messages are copied to the Sent folder, this
Thomas,
Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000...
MRH I believe horses have a relevant expression regarding stable doors and
MRH bolting...
TF This must be an English expression...
The proper expression is...
"That's like bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted."
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote:
Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my
Outbox now... just in case. :)
By "purge/compress" flag do you mean both the "Remove old messages"
and "Compress the folder" checkboxes or just the latter? I check
only
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:35:14 AM, Mark wrote:
The proper expression is...
"That's like bolting the stable door after the horse has
bolted."
There's a similar saying in Chinese, but with "sheep" instead of
horses. :)
--
Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.46 Beta/6 | Win2k
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:05:37 AM, Thomas wrote:
MRH The big warning here is that the 'Outbox' folder under TB is
MRH not set by default to automatically compress and purge.
Since the sent messages are copied to the Sent folder, this
surprises me on second thought. They are not, for
Hallo Ming-Li,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:49:48 -0700 GMT (14/09/2000, 22:49 +0800 GMT),
Ming-Li wrote:
Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my
Outbox now... just in case. :)
ML E.g., if I set the Outbox to keep zero message, and auto-purge on
ML exit, then would it
Hallo Ming-Li,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:42:46 -0700 GMT (14/09/2000, 22:42 +0800 GMT),
Ming-Li wrote:
ML It's because TB moves sent messages from the Outbox folder to the
ML Sent folder the same way it moves other messages--by copying them
ML over and deleting the originals (it's basically what
Ming-Li,
Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000...
ML On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote:
Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my
Outbox now... just in case. :)
ML By "purge/compress" flag do you mean both the "Remove old messages"
ML
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 8:11:07 AM, Thomas wrote:
I am perfectly aware of this from a programming POV. However, from
a user's POV, my database keeps growing and growing over years and
years, and I don't even know about it.
Shouldn't the Outbox be compressed by default?
Maybe. I'm
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 8:06:51 AM, Thomas wrote:
Yes, it does. "Keep zero messages" will only keep parked messages.
How about only ticking "On Exit: Compress Folder" and leaving
everything else unticked. This should get rid of deleted messages
I would think.
Ok, then that's what
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:27:51 -0700, Ming-Li wrote:
(3) Is it easier to save as a Unix file instead? I'd prefer this
as I then could strip off extra headers and save a bit of space.
ML If you don't care all the extra information (parked, flagged,
ML colored, replied marks and memo, etc.) which
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:47:03 -0700, ztrader wrote:
z (5) If I strip out the base64 coded part of attachments in the Unix
z file, but leave the 'boundary' lines to show that there was an
z attachment, will TB get confused by the 'boundary' lines still being
z in there, without the base64 part?
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 1:49:42 PM, you wrote:
PS To be sure that TB! doesn't get confused, replace the little header
PS just after the boundary line with
PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
PS Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
PS After these two lines leave an empty line
Hello Mark,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:12:27 +0100 GMT your local time, which was
Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:12:27 AM (GMT-6) my local time,
you wrote:
MRH Ming-Li,
MRH Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000...
ML On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote:
Needless
Hi Jack,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:21:32 -0500GMT (15/09/2000, 08:21 +0800GMT),
Jack LaRosa wrote:
JL I just looked at the preferences for my outbox and I have both the
JL "Remove old messages" and "Compress the folder" boxes checked. The
JL "keep nn messages/keep messages for nn days" boxes are
On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 1:56:31 PM, Peter wrote:
While the extra info really is lost (why not put some X-Bat-Flag
header into the messages when exporting?), the received time
should be correct (starting with version 1.42).
Indeed, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
--
Best
I'd like to save old mail messages in TB format.
(1) If I do that, is it possible to save only the message file and not
the index file? If I then try to read the message file by itself, will
it work without the index?
(2) The files would be renamed (date, etc added to name). If I do
this, can
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