Re: zoe (on mac os x)

>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:58:04 +1000, entropy wrote:

>>> basically what i need is for me to log into zoe, and then say 'load
>>> inbox.mbox' thus showing me all the latest emails that have arrived in
>>> chronological order. then i might want to reply or send a new mail and
>>> this should be stored in the 'sent.mbox' file.

>> The basic setup that Zoe was intended to work with is to put Zoe 
>> between your mail client and your mail server.  In other words, have 
>> Zoe get email from your ISP for you and use your email client to get 
>> email from Zoe.  Going the other way, you send email from your email 
>> client to Zoe and Zoe forwards it to your ISP.  Zoe sits in between 
>> your client and server and acts as an archiver.

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:07:40 +1000, entropy wrote:

> ok, i was just hoping for something else...

> the issue that i have i guess is how do you get your sent mail from zoe 
> back to your client?

The method I described does that.  If you send the message with Zoë itself, just remember to check the 'Save a Copy' checkbox and Zoë will keep a copy of the sent mail.  The next time your client fetches new messages, it'll get the one you sent along with anything else it hasn't already fetched.  Even if you use a second email client to send the message via Zoë, the next time your regular email client fetches email, it'll get the email sent by the secondary email client because Zoë will save it.

One 'gotcha' in all of this is that you MUST make sure that your email client is set to leave messages on the server so it doesn't delete them from Zoë.  Similarly, you shouldn't be using your secondary email client to fetch mail too because things can get a little confused if you do that.

Another issue that can cause some confusion is that the first time you do a fetch from Zoë it will try to download EVERY email message that Zoë has archived because you've never fetched them before.  If you have thousands, it could take a while and since you're fetching them with a client that already has the messages, then you end up with duplicate copies and a lot of deleting to do.  You can set the fetch.limit to a small number to reduce the problems that this can cause.

Another issue is that you should avoid using the reply links in Zoë because the HTML mailto format doesn't provide a way to pass on much more than the mailto address, so it can mess up the ability of Zoë, your mail client and the recipient's email client and any list server involved to keep track of threads.  Fetching the messages from Zoë using your email client and repling with your email client is generally better than replying with Zoë's internal reply mechanism (the '@' link) or the 'Reply' or 'All' links.

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