23 Jun
2018
23 Jun
'18
2:55 a.m.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
On 22 Jun 2018, at 15:54, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
At least on my Mac messages seem to be stored one per file.
Attachments are stored separately. Doesn't seem hard to figure out.
You can periodically rsync to a different place and experiment.
Try mutt, it's what I use and it threads topics just fine.
The trouble is I have > 10 years of mail sitting in the OSX mail system and although I
could probably export it all (it at least used to be relatively straightforward to do
this) the sheer terror of doing that is, well, terrifying because there's a lot of
stuff in there that matters. Using the system-provided mail tool was a stupid
decision, and one I managed to avoid with the browser &c, but it's too late now.
There is not much available that is decent.I too use Apple Mail
but also have a separate MH store that goes way back. MH is great
for bulk operations but not for viewing MIME infested mail or
simple things like attaching documents. What I really want is a
combined MUA.
(Now this is an off-topic discussion from a discussion
about off-topicness.)
meta-meta-meta!