Re: Getting away from GNOME #5

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <admin nanolx org>]

On Thursday 13 January 2011 04:52:13 GSR - FR wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> admin nanolx org (2011-01-12 at 1931.01 +0100):
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:35:34 GSR - FR wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > admin nanolx org (2011-01-11 at 2312.45 +0100):
> > > > ML Archive (asynchronously made/might not yet exist):
> > > > http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/sawfish
> > > 
> > > Any way to get mailboxes like in GNOME archive? You know, web search
> > > will never win over a local search (grep, mboxgrep, the mail app...),
> > > neither will do web browsing over local browsing (mail app). ;]
> > 
> > TuxFamily is a project hoster and e-mail-service provider, so you can
> > either register "normally" for a mail address or as developer and
> > activate USERNAME_AT_TF.org mail address.
> 
> Not that kind of mailboxes, but this .gz ones from
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/
> 
> Getting the old posts is a lot faster by getting the txt (and with
> some postprocessing, you get a mbox file that can be feed into many
> mail apps), for example if you need to look up something, or even have
> to unsuscribe and then later want to get all the emails (more or less,
> they will lack some headers),
> 
> GSR

Ah, you want a compressed mail-archive :)

No, it's not currently possible, but I filled a feature-request at TF's forum.
(Actually I never had the idea to download the archive and grep it, but it 
doesn't sound bad, if you want do some regexed searches)

Chris