[tlug] EMailClients/BackingUpEMailFiles

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Re: "... not sure what client you're using, but yes, even if you change 
a subject line and hit reply, the more sophisticated email clients like 
mutt show it as being part of the old thread. Jonathan, if you could 
make a little screenshot of it, I'll put it up on the web somewhere, and 
reference it in my newbie faq."

I'm using Mozilla 1.6, and I just went to <View> and tried a sort by 
thread - yikes!  From "pytheon development" to "SevenFiles...".  Ah.... 
yes, yes, yes, now I understand very well the irritation with thread 
hijacking!  I've always had my e-mail set to simply show e-mail in 
chronological order.  To keep track of things, I've created a byzantine 
filing system.......

Speaking of e-mail clients - I liked Netscape Communicator 4.8 on EE 
(EvilEmpire) for its extreme ease of backing up things - for example, 
you can have 10,000 files (literally) in one folder, as I recently did 
for an OpenOffice newsgroup, and by hitting <Ctrl>+<A>, they are all 
highlighted, and then <Ctrl>+<S> and the entire batch is saved into one 
single (rather large) text file.  Is there a way to do the same sort of 
thing with Mozilla?  It didn't seem to work when I tried it.  Also, with 
Netscape 4.8, I could move the entire InBox or Sent to other machines 
just by dropping that one file into the appropriate folder within 
Netscape.  I tried this with the Linux version of Netscape 4.8 and it 
worked, but I haven't tried it with Mozilla 1.6 yet - does it work that way?

Any suggestions as to the best e-mail client to use?

Lyle