Many thanks for everyone's comments.

Generally, I'm pretty fed up with Communicator. It's adequate, I
suppose, but slow, forever popping up modal dialogue boxes and has none
of the virtues or vices of outlook. I wish I'd gone with something
sensible like pine or Kmail.....

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.

On to specifics:

danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:

> 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...

I'll buy some more! It's actually pretty slow in Netscape, too.

> 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.....


> 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.

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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