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...
-- 
Chris Hall <chris@...>

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