Re: format of internal files

On 24 Nov 2016  Nick Roberts <tigger@...> wrote:

> 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.

I must look into that. I've had mixed success with Bookmaker in the 
past (my fault, not its!), but I'll have another try soon.

> 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.

That would be excellent, if it does reach release.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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

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