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Interesting idea. I do a similar thing with OneNote on long outgoing mails that I write that take a long time to compose. However, how do you deal with threade
by localhost 15y ago
Interesting idea. I do a similar thing with OneNote on long outgoing mails that I write that take a long time to compose.
However, how do you deal with threaded conversations and tracking the 1 liner replies to those mails? There are a large # of mails that I write that fall into this category.
Someone I know wrote his own email client that is essentially a long text buffer where email conversations are persisted to a single text file. He has commands that allow him to select portions of text from that file to compose in his replies. He's used that system since the 1980's and still has all of his email from back then logged into individual files.
- edw519 15y agohow do you deal with threaded conversations and tracking the 1 liner replies to those mails? I only save that last copy in the same .txt file. I email it to myself, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, X-Delete.
- icebraining 15y agoI don't get it, email is the easiest thing in the world to backup and view offline. You can just run e.g. offlineimap to periodically download the messages, and then you can use virtually any email client to view them Tracking replies is done automatically as long as you actually click "reply", because mail clients add the In-Reply-To header with the ID of the message you're replying to. I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I just don't understand what's the issue.
- brianobush 15y agoI have a cron job that archives all my gmail content to my local box in mbox format. I use getmail: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/