Re: format of internal files
In message <c16918e455.pnyoung@...>
Peter Young <pnyoung@...> wrote:
> 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*?"
Yes. I should like that info as well. One thing that irritates me is
that when you have a multi-person address book entry and you edit the
person to have a new e-mail, the multi-person address entry does not
pick this up. A terrible oversight.
Also in the inbox (or sent folder) if you have an e-mail addresses to
'Fred' and you edit the 'Fred' entry to be 'Fred (work)', again does
the existing mail pick this change (your nickname for a particular
xxx@... email address) up?
These are pretty fundamental...
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Chris Hall <chris@...>
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