[LINK] RFC: A Capable Email-Client, e.g. for a Mac

[Roger Clarke]

At 18:44 -0700 28/9/18, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Similar results (decade or more) using SeaMonkey, which is basically the
>Mozilla email and web clients combined into one handy package. I have
>been using it on OSX/macOS "forever".
>
>SeaMonkey filters and shuffles email into relevant folders, and then flags such folders
>with the number of UNREAD emails in bold text, so they are easy to notice.

Untenable the way I work, unfortunately.

(I have too many mailboxes for it to be workable, and it's not possible to remember what the previous count was.  Also, some messages remain unopened forever, e.g. if I've already dealt with them on the portable while travelling).


>Attachments remain encoded in the original email (standard unix-style rfc format) until
>you manually detach them and file them away according to your own system and needs.
>
>Since the mailboxes are stored in the standard "plain text" rfc format, I have been able to
>move my personal email stores for several accounts and thousands of emails from one
>machine to another with nary a glitch. And as such, the email boxes are very amenable
>to shell-based "bashing" as it were, if you are so inclined.

Mmmm, I'd need a reliable AppleScript or shell script routine to detect file-start and file-end, extract the file, and save-as into the Transfer Folder.

But it would have to run as the last step on every single message-fetch, and hence may have to be embedded in every filter.

And I'd be stuck with duplicate files buried in user/Library forever, burning up untold amounts of space thanks to all those intentional and accidental spammers out there - unless I took the risk of the script deleting after copying, or had another script that was run in batch mode spasmodically, to delete 'old' files from every folder (where 'old' = maybe message-date more than a month older than system-date).


Thanks for the thoughts so far, received both on and off list!


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