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

Bruce ONeel beoneel at bluewin.ch
Wed Oct 31 19:56:25 UTC 2001


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

danielv at 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 at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.




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