Re: [Pan-users] Creating an local archive of subscribed groups?

[Heinrich Mueller]

Am 22.08.2010 21:56, schrieb Paul Crawford:
> On 22/08/10 18:17, Heinrich Mueller wrote:
> <snip>
> > > What other (simple, preferably) possibilities do there exist, not
> > > necessarily using Pan for storage, but certainly for reading and
> > > searching?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jurgen
> > >
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> > Thunderbird perhaps?
>
> I use Thunderbird as my email client, partly because I have an archive 
> going back years (to Netscape before, and previous to that with 
> Pegasus (I think) that Netscape could import), and partly as I have 
> found it to be the 'least worst' email client that is Linux/Windows 
> supported, though I don't really do email on Windows any more.
>
> Version 3.x has much better searching (I think there is an index 
> database created) but in some other ways I don't like it as much as 2.x
>
> So Thunderbird is usable as a newsgroup client, but only for text 
> groups as its handling of attachments is really quite poor, also I 
> don't know if it can handle 64-bit message IDs. So worth trying, but 
> no general replacement for Pan in my opinion.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
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I was only talking about the search function and the database (read 
posts) which has practically no limit.