Re: [Pan-users] Creating an local archive of subscribed groups?

[Paul Crawford]

On 22/08/10 18:17, Heinrich Mueller wrote:
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> > What other (simple, preferably) possibilities do there exist, not
> > necessarily using Pan for storage, but certainly for reading and
> > searching?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jurgen
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> Thunderbird perhaps?

I use Thunderbird as my email client, partly because I have an archive 
going back years (to Netscape before, and previous to that with Pegasus 
(I think) that Netscape could import), and partly as I have found it to 
be the 'least worst' email client that is Linux/Windows supported, 
though I don't really do email on Windows any more.

Version 3.x has much better searching (I think there is an index 
database created) but in some other ways I don't like it as much as 2.x

So Thunderbird is usable as a newsgroup client, but only for text groups 
as its handling of attachments is really quite poor, also I don't know 
if it can handle 64-bit message IDs. So worth trying, but no general 
replacement for Pan in my opinion.

Regards,
Paul