On 9/13/05, manuel 'fmf' ferrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sheila miguez, on 13/09/2005 13.55: > > On 9/13/05, City Hippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > downloading everything and using grep is inconvenient and not > > relatively easy for everyone. > > <http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/> > > If you use thunderbird (or some other mua who let you do some similar) > you can use with this workaround: > close tb; > make a new folder called delicious, in your profile > (http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit.html#profile), now you > have a new directory called delicious there; > Download everything from list archives, concatenate all files in one big > file, and put the big one into the new directory in your profile; > open tb and you have all the old mails in delicious folder; > search in that folder with inline search or use something like google > desktop to search through your local files. this is the equivalent of downloading everything and using grep. :) Tbird or another mail client isn't the best searcher for that (Mail.app search sucks). probably better off with your google desktop suggestion, spotlight or Finder for the mac users. or save everything to a gmail account (or IMAP account with sufficient storage space) and search that. My subscription ends up in my gmail account. This solution provides access everywhere. IMAP has search capabilities. Anyway, the list hasn't flamed anyone for asking a FAQ. people usually provide a link to an old discussion instead. It's not a horrible fox paw, yet. > HTH HADN have a day nice? -- sheila _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
