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A few ideas to help those of us with limited disk quotas who also insist on keeping every mail ever sent to us, less spam:
First: store the mail folders in gzip format gosh darn it.
Second: allow deletion of attachments to a message but not the rest of a message. Yes, it is probably
possible to do this by hand in Pico or something, but this should be made eaiser.
Third: don't store the attachments to messages in your sent mail folder, just the bodies.
Pine homepage
http://www.washington.edu/pine/ [jutta, Dec 13 2001]
Mutt homepage
http://www.mutt.org/ [jutta, Dec 13 2001]
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With mutt you can set a folder hook to un/recompress when you navigate mail folders, press D to delete attachments, and a fcc hook to remove attachments. |
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I used to use pine/pico & thought that moving to mutt/vim would be a PITA, but it wasn't that bad, & I'd never go back. |
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<french knight>We've already got one. It's very nice.</french knight> |
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A bit practical for the HB, but sounds good to me. |
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[PeterSealy] Pine: Pine Is Not Elm Elm: ELectronic Mail Both are UNIX email clients. I have no idea what Pico stands for, but it is a text editor. |
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Pico stands for PIne COmposer but the editor is actually originally derived from MicroEmacs. I would imagine that the nickname was all the more satisfying to Pico's author(s) because it means "small" (Italian) and is well suited to the dimunitive footprint of the application. |
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MS Outlook also allows deletion of just the atttachments and its native archive format, .pst, is highly compressed. |
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Aside: My dog, an Italian Greyhound, is named Pico and, for a Greyhound, he is highly compressed, too. |
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Eudora separates attachments to a file when downloading email, so attachments don't require major surgery to remove. Similarly, when sending mail, only the body is stored in the sent folder. |
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I'm not sure about the compressed format thing, though. |
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I thought Pine was something that hurts in Australia. |
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Okay, [cp], maybe "highly compressed" is an overstatement, but .psts are compressed. |
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