[Wylug-discuss] Call for talks/ideas for talks

[Paul Brook]

> I get tons of invaluable information by email. How do I save it to so I
> can keep it in a normal file system?

File/Save As?

Most clients I've seen use either mbox or maildir format mailboxes, both of 
which are fairly straightforward plaintext based formats if you want to 
extract things in an automated fashion.

I'm fairly sure mutt allows you to pipe your messages to a script, so you can 
use this to do whatever you want.  If your client doesn't do this I guess you 
can save them in a directory and have a cron job process them.

Seriously though, a big pile of text files is a crappy way of storing 
information.  Much better to put it into a wiki/CMS/knowledge base so you can 
organise it properly, add links, etc.  Particularly if it's for anything 
other than personal use this makes the difference between knowing that you've 
seen it somewhere, and actually being able to find what you want :-)

Paul