Hi Joseph, Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 2:53:48 PM, you wrote:
JN> On Monday, August 19, 2002, Razgo wrote in JN> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: R>> So all suggestions on the way you guys handle backup copies of your R>> email is appreciated. JN> Razgo, JN> I think you've heard most of the better ideas, including Allie's JN> interesting method of using a scheduled archive operation. I thought JN> I'd add my method into the mix because it overlaps in part some JN> previous ideas and in part is different. thanks for taking the time to respond. JN> For several reasons, I don't like to keep more mail in the program JN> than I need to, so I try to keep the message base in TB! pretty small. yes I would normally do this also to keep system resources as free as possible. however I discovered the bat! uses much less than my Eudora programme did. currently the bat! is using 5% and Eudora is using 13%, and thats a huge difference. JN> So periodically I append the messages in some of my TB! folders into JN> Mailbag Assistant's native archive format. You could develop a script JN> to do that automatically, but I don't know how and don't have the need JN> to learn. The TB! message base can be saved in Mailbag Archive's JN> native format or as Unix file formatted files or as (I think) text JN> files. The advantages to using this program include compression and JN> sophisticated search, print, and database operations (and you can JN> reply from within the program via MAPI). ok this sounds good. JN> However, I also archive certain email on the fly. For those messages, JN> I have filters set up which automatically append the message onto a JN> Unix-formatted file. yes, this is something I will have to learn how to do and put into practise. JN> I can't say that my practices are any better than the other JN> suggestions you've received, they're just what I've worked out for my JN> purposes, which are to keep certain types of messages both archived JN> and accessible, and to have a program or format which can be used JN> seamlessly with different email programs. thanks for the tips. I have many options now to consider. thank you all. -- Best regards, Razgo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
