[celeste] moving from Communicator to Celeste....

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Thu Nov 1 23:32:35 UTC 2001


John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> But, since my little Rolodex thing uses Celeste, and since it's
> obviously undergoing a good deal of development, a switch to Celeste
> seems to make some kind of sense (at least in theory!) and I think,
> somewhere in the back of my mind was the idea that it might acquire a
> sort of database (or database like) functionality: you know the kind of
> thing, somewhere, deep in my MySQL digest is the URL to a reference
> someone on the HH list desperately needs. I could (and have!) easily
> spent half an hour looking for it.

Lex is working on strengthening Celeste's filtering capabilities, so you
could add a category filter to get just you MySQL digests, then a search
filter for what fragments you remember of the url, then add a date
filter according to when you think it was, then scan. So you can narrow
your search more or less any way you want to, in any order. I don't know
if that's what you're thinking about...
 
> On to specifics:
> 
> danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It's only two levels deep: inbox and then a flat layer of other
> categories.
That's Celeste's model so that won't be a problem.

[Lots of messages -> lots of memory]
> 
> I'll buy some more! It's actually pretty slow in Netscape, too.
Well, more memory is always nice, but this would probably not be
critical. I used a 64MB machine to read my 130 mail. And a smaller index
is certainly doable if people find that's a problem.
 
> > 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.
> 
> I'll take a look and see if I can make sense out of it. With my coding
> skills, I may be gone for some time.....
Cool, have fun. Feel free to mail me offline with any questions.

> Mike and Bijan's postings have encouraged me to hold on for a moment,
> but just let me know when you think the time is right, folks!
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -- 
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> destroy themselves and have money to burn on 3rd party tools to keep
> your
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