Re: format of internal files

In message <0c1117e455.jim@...>
       Jim Nagel <mpro@...> wrote:

> Has the format of certain MPro internal files ever been published?

Not to the best of my knowledge.
 
> 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.

One of the problems with MPro address books is that the original
freeware Messenger had one format, early MPro extended that format, and
round about MPro 4 or 5 it was extended yet again, but each version of
Mpro had to be backwards compatible. Like all systems that grew like
this, the format looks very little like the way it would look if you
designed it from scratch to do what it currently does.

>  - 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.
>  - 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.

BookMaker can handle MPro address books. In particular, you can export
either the entire address book or selected parts as HTML or text, edit
the result, and then re-import the edited list.

When you re-import the addresses, they are added to what you have, but
it's comparatively easy to delete everything you have so the
newly-imported stuff is all that you'll have left.

I've been toying with writing a tool to manipulte MPro filters and
scoring rules (as you say, not being able to search them is a real
pain), but that's no where near releasable yet.

-- 
Nick Roberts           tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk           

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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