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| From | Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox |
| Date | 2024-06-03 22:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ILm0y-nAE-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <IKZQl-acq-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <ILizD-lDr-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ILlea-nkr-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <ILlnP-nnF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ILlxv-nqT-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 4/6/24 03:26, Chris M wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote: >>> I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox >>> format to store emails. >>> It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. >>> >>> Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the >>> mailbox a certain size? >>> or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? >>> >>> The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 >>> on Windows 10. And you had >>> to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption. >>> >>> I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done >>> reading emails. >>> >>> Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at: >>> >>> Number Of Messages: 4776 >>> >>> Size: 300 MB >>> >> >> I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but, >> if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have >> previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving >> email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine, >> previously known as pine. >> >> The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show >> "Total count of files: 13720 >> Total size of files: 24.5GB" >> >> I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more), >> involving some thousands of filter parameter field values. >> >> >> >> .... >> Bret Busby >> Armadale >> Western Australia >> (UTC+0800) >> ................. >> >> > Hi Bret, > > I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a > Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting. > > And, in goggling alpine " Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP, NNTP and LDAP protocols natively. Although it does not support composing HTML email, it can display emails that only have HTML content as text. Alpine can read and write to folders in several formats, including Maildir, mbox, the mh format used by the mh message handling system, mbx, and MIX. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client) So, it appears to be able to deal with your mbox thingy. alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, and, the alpine mailing list includes the current named developer, and, others who are highly knowledgeable of alpine. And, alpine's predecessor, pine, has been around, and usable, since before the Internet. My current alpine email archive goes back more than 20 years. I was using pine (and elm) on an IBM 3081 mainframe, in the early 1990's. .... Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .................
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