On Monday, August 19, 2002, Razgo wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
R> So all suggestions on the way you guys handle backup copies of your R> email is appreciated. Razgo, I think you've heard most of the better ideas, including Allie's interesting method of using a scheduled archive operation. I thought I'd add my method into the mix because it overlaps in part some previous ideas and in part is different. For several reasons, I don't like to keep more mail in the program than I need to, so I try to keep the message base in TB! pretty small. So periodically I append the messages in some of my TB! folders into Mailbag Assistant's native archive format. You could develop a script to do that automatically, but I don't know how and don't have the need to learn. The TB! message base can be saved in Mailbag Archive's native format or as Unix file formatted files or as (I think) text files. The advantages to using this program include compression and sophisticated search, print, and database operations (and you can reply from within the program via MAPI). However, I also archive certain email on the fly. For those messages, I have filters set up which automatically append the message onto a Unix-formatted file. I can't say that my practices are any better than the other suggestions you've received, they're just what I've worked out for my purposes, which are to keep certain types of messages both archived and accessible, and to have a program or format which can be used seamlessly with different email programs. -- JN ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
