Re: Any way to use Xywrite as an E-mail reader?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:

>
> You can do it, [use XyWrite for e-mail] after a fashion, with Eudora, without
> going to any lengths.
> You'd use Eudora to get (and later to send) mail. The basic idea is that
> Eudora uses ASCII .mbx files. You can read and edit those files in Xy, then
> save them and re-load Eudora. It will find that it .toc file for that
> mailbox no longer fits, but it will just ask you if it should make it again
> (and you click okay).
>

You can use XyWrite as an "offline" reader of old e-mails very well indeed, at
least in Netscape e-mail, which is what Columbia University uses. And from what
Harry says it ought to work in Eudora as well.

In Netscape, every e-mail folder you create is actually a file. So, when I start
a new project, I create a folder for it. Now, Netscape automatically creates
several folders, among them INBOX and SENT. So when I start a project, I create a
new folder with the author's name. Then, I move messages to and from that author
automatically to the correct folder.

Netscape--unlike Eudora, I take it--automatically compresses folders (actually a
file, as I said) when you exit. So here's what I do. Let us say that on February
28, Professor Smart has e-mailed me to say he needs to send me an update to his
ms., which he has already reviewed. I tell him to add it in e-mail, and I'll
patch it in.

Without even having to open Netscape (and even if it is open I don't want to go
there), I go to Netscape\users\mail\ Then, because of compressions, I set my
default 1a=1 (to make sure I can read past an EOF), and then I open the file
SMART with the regular CA command. All the e-mails to and from him appear there
in the order they were written, and I just search for the update I'm looking for,
define it, and copy it to whatever place in the ms. it belongs in.


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