Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Monday 2005-01-31 at 17:24 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> > Unfortunately Kmail doesn't provide for that, though it's been
> > requested.  I don't know about other Linux mailers.
> 
> mutt, and perhaps pine

No, Pine can not read email from a CD, it complains that it can not write 
to it - apparently it wants to change the "read" status, "answered", and 
such. Unless there is a trick I haven't discovered.

> 
> > I don't know why Kmail doesn't have this obvious enhancement.
> 
> ??

Mmm. Perhaps. You (well, the OP) could try separating the mail folders
(mbox format) on a directory on the CD, and the indexes files locally on
the HD. I can think this out another day, I'm interested myself.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson