Re: format of internal files

On 24 Nov 2016  Jim Nagel <mpro@...> wrote:

> Has the format of certain MPro internal files ever been published?
> If so, where; if not, could it be, please?

> In particular:
>  - Addressbooks.  I want to make some wholesale changes, which would
> be much easier to do if I could export the file to a spreadsheet,
> revise it there, and then re-import it as addressbook.  One reason is
> that my existing system of aliases has become overloaded and I have a
> new convention in mind.
>  - Filters.  Wholesale reorganization ditto.  Big gripe with the
> existing Filters dialogue is that there is no way of *searching* for
> the relevant entry in a long list.

Both the address book (why do I have 3, one of which is empty?) and 
filter files all seem to be TSV, but it's obscure as to how they work.

>  - Group choices.  I want to do wholesale change, to make all groups
> "personal" rather than "public" and to set "global message state" on
> all of them.  I must have 200ish groups, and doing them all
> individually from the dialogue would be tedious.  I gather that I need
> to make these changes in order to set up (at last) another station on
> my network as an MPro client using NNTP/IMAP.

Further to this, I wish someone could do an article for Archive about 
how the whole of !NewsDir works. I've asked for this before, and have 
been told "It's a database". My reaction to this is, "I know, but how 
does in *work*?"

Best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc Ir) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung@...

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