[u-u] Odds and Ends

[Adam Holland]

I think that, given my skill level with email administration, and the
desire to flee Google and resume other computer-related study soon, I have
figured out what I should do.

The quickest way I can implement all your great advice is to have two
secondary accounts, one for the wanted volume from mailing lists and one
for the unwanted volume from commercial sites who will likely spam me after
registration. With /etc/aliases, I understand that I can assign a bunch of
email addresses to either of these two accounts.  This will result in a
cluttered but presorted pair of mailboxes which can be further filtered
based on the incoming address, later down the line.

Other unanswered points:

-The remark about my SGI O2 was not that I wanted to make use of it for
privacy purposes, I offered it for use in case anyone wanted to compile/run
something temporarily under IRIX as a curiousity or something else uncommon.

-I will not compromise with a gmail inbox for mailing lists.  What little
impact my boycott will have would be undermined if I were to do so.

-My search for a Youtube replacement would be more of a webpage that embeds
short clips for playing in-browser.  The purpose would be for enhancing
on-line socializing with say, funny cat videos, rather than file sharing of
full-length films.  This is proving to be the hardest service to find a
replacement for, none of my contacts have found anything workable yet.

Thanks again, and if all goes well I will be posting from a non-gmail
account after this.

-Adam

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Alan J Rosenthal <flaps at 56789.ca> wrote:

> >sounds like Maildir.
>
> Various people have had the idea of storing one e-mail message per file
> so as to take greater advantage of the unix tool set.  "mh" also uses
> one message per file, but it (also) isn't maildir because it doesn't have
> the maildir subdirectory structure.
>
> I love mh because you can do all sorts of unix tool things.  For one,
> cleaning up from mail spew type situations is a snap and I never
> accidentally delete other messages in the middle of the spew -- my deletion
> is via greps which match the spew and which I can easily inspect before
> doing mv `command` ~/tmp/spew20180723 or whatever.  (I'm less enamoured
> of the GUI front-end "exmh", but I still use it.)
>
> regards,
> ajr
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