Communicator uses unix/eudora format, I believe....

danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:

Cool, I don't know of anyone with quite that much mail in Celeste!

I think you can probably live happily in Celeste, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of help if you need it (on the list or off it), but you should know you might need to get your elbows dirty to get good performance.

I've used Celeste with 130MB very happily, and I think some people have somewhat more.

What might be too slow for your comfort is the operation of saving and loading the index, which is dependent on how many messages you have. However, this is only done when you open/close Celeste, so that's not too bad. Another thing is that the in memory index, well, takes up memory...

As Lex said, we have plans to overhaul the Celeste indexes, which are somewhat stuck, but maybe they'll be unstuck if that gives you trouble.

About the conversion - Nope, we don't have a Communicator format mail reader/importer. However, it's pretty easy to write them - that's how I converted from MH, for example - I wrote the class MHMainInboxFile (all two methods of it). Your milage might vary - but a Communicator filter would probably be useful to other people too.

Then you put your class in MailBD>>importMailFrom:intoCategory: instead of MailInboxFile, and voila.

Anther question - Do you have a deep mail category tree? Celeste has a flat list. You'll have to think what you want to do with that.

Daniel

John Hinsley jhinsley@telinco.co.uk wrote:

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I'd like to switch from Communicator to Celeste. I don't have any problems with multiple ISPs and such.

The problem I do have is simply the huge amount (well, hugeness is relative, currently nudging half a gig and all in standard Netscape 4.7* on *nix format) of stuff I have to transfer over. It can't be as simple as copying all the child directories over, or can it?

Ideas, advice and cries of "don't do it!" welcome.

Cheers

John

If you don't care about your data, like file systems which automagically destroy themselves and have money to burn on 3rd party tools to keep your system staggering on, Microsoft (tm) have the Operating System for you.