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Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

From fxkl47BF@protonmail.com
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Subject Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox
Date 2024-06-03 23:10 +0200
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Bret Busby wrote:

> 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.

i started using pine in the 90's on hpux
still using alpine and no problems

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