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Date:	Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:02:24 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: E-Mail Question...?

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J R FOX wrote:

>> local folders files in my
>> profile\mozilla\profiles\default\xxx.slt\mail\local
>> folders

> I take it you mean to transplant them elsewhere ?
> This is something I'm interested in as well. Ray or
> Bob probably have some better info on this.

Bob says "discussing email clients is like discussing religion." I
guess he is suggesting someone might say "mine is best, just because it
is, end of subject." But we don't need to approach email that way
because it can be treated as philosophy and technology, both of which
can be defined.

You start with what do you want it to do, and then what is readily
doable. I am going to skip lightly over the first for now because that
is mostly in the mind of the user. I will however mention a couple
things that can be done that you may have not considered.

The first is get mail and news out of the profile. I was an easy place
to put it during initial installation but you probably don't want to be
stuck with it there. It is data. Profiles come and go but the data
remains valid.

Mail can be sorted many ways. You will probably seldom know or care how
it is physically stored. If for some reason you want a message as a
single mail format file, make a new folder, copy\move the message to it,
you now have it as a single message file. I doubt you will have much
reason to do this.

I am on the road. I have to close this for now.

Ray

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