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jacadcaps

# 676
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 3106 from 2003/3/5

From: Canada

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- No import/export function (for mbox format?).

Sure there is!

To import a folder with messages, rmb on My Computer in Iris and select Map Local Folder. You can also view individual messages by selecting Messages > Load Message from menu.

To export a single message use Messages > Save Message from menu. To export more, use the Map Local Folder feature to add your destination, then you can drag & drop messages there to be saved.

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The client seems to be quite slow, compared to YAM on my Pegasos2, which had only half the power of the Mini.

Not much here to comment on since you haven't provided much detail. What's slow?

If you mean the time it takes to show a list of messages in a folder for the 1st time or showing an email, that depends in big part on your IMAP server. IMAP is typically slower than POP3. I recommend enabling local caching in Iris to speed this up - this can be done in the Storage tab in Account Settings.

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I prefer to write and reply in pure ASCII and I need a fixed font

Courier New is a fixed width font. You should see it on the list.

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I found no option to set an automatic line break

There's no such option indeed. I believe it's best to leave such things to the client on the other end since that yields best results with Mail, Outlook and most web clients.
»13.11.24 - 17:38

phx

# 677
Butterfly

Posts: 67 from 2005/3/29

From: Herford, Germany

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jacadcaps wrote:
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To import a folder with messages, rmb on My Computer in Iris and select Map Local Folder.

Great! That works fine. I can simply add all the mail folders from my YAM-backup, even without exporting them first. Very nice!

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Not much here to comment on since you haven't provided much detail. What's slow?

The editor seemed slow while typing, especially when inserting new lines. But it's not dramatic and it nearly disappeared after switching the Ambient screen from 24 to 16 bits. Not really an issue for me, to be honest.

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IMAP is typically slower than POP3. I recommend enabling local caching in Iris to speed this up

BTW, can I switch an account to POP3? I prefer to have my main working machine (which would become the Mini now) connect with POP3, while other clients (at work, notebook for travels/holiday) use IMAP. Don't want to leave private mails on an external server. I can probably simulate the effect by local caching and deleting in Iris?

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Courier New is a fixed width font. You should see it on the list.

Indeed. That helps a lot! Thanks.
Might be nice to have an indication which fonts are fixed and which are proportional in this list. Otherwise you have to check each of them. ;)

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I found no option to set an automatic line break

There's no such option indeed. I believe it's best to leave such things to the client on the other end since that yields best results with Mail, Outlook and most web clients.

Hmm... perhaps. But it's always nice to leave that decision as an option to the user. :)

Even more important to me was the line-break problem while typing, because lines where getting too long in the editor. But now, together with the fixed font, I can simply make the editor window small enough to get an automatic line-break after 74 characters, which is ok.
»14.11.24 - 10:02

jacadcaps

# 678
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 3106 from 2003/3/5

From: Canada

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BTW, can I switch an account to POP3? ... I can probably simulate the effect by local caching and deleting in Iris?

Iris doesn't really support POP3. If there's emails you don't want to keep on server, I can only recommend adding more local folders to My Computer in Iris and moving those there.

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Hmm... perhaps. But it's always nice to leave that decision as an option to the user. :)

Which user is that? If you mean yourself then are you aware
that the client
on the other side will perform it's own line-wrapping depending
on their own
window sizes and will likely present your email like I'm doing
it here if you
end up inserting your own line breaks? :)
»14.11.24 - 12:58

phx

# 679
Butterfly

Posts: 67 from 2005/3/29

From: Herford, Germany

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jacadcaps wrote:
Iris doesn't really support POP3. If there's emails you don't want to keep on server, I can only recommend adding more local folders to My Computer in Iris and moving those there.

Ok. I have to check that when I'm home. Does Iris support the definition of mail filters? Then this could be easily automated by defining filter rules to move mails into specific local folders.

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other side will perform it's own line-wrapping depending
on their own
window sizes and will likely present your email like I'm doing
it here if you
end up inserting your own line breaks? :)

LOL
Then your window is too small. You should always expect up to 80 characters. :)

I'm an old-school email-user, still following the netiquette defined in the 80s and 90s.
The only thing I hate more than HTML mails is posting on top of a quoted mail. ;)
»14.11.24 - 14:08

jacadcaps

# 680
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 3106 from 2003/3/5

From: Canada

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phx wrote:
Does Iris support the definition of mail filters? Then this could be easily automated by defining filter rules to move mails into specific local folders.

Nothing permanent. You can filter contents of current folder or use a separate Search window, but there's nothing permanent or nothing that'd run on new messages. That's because filters are generally not needed when using IMAP, because you define those on the server. Basically all IMAP providers offer those, so I saw no reason to duplicate functionality.

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I'm an old-school email-user, still following the netiquette defined in the 80s and 90s.
The only thing I hate more than HTML mails is posting on top of a quoted mail. ;)

Yeah, but we're in 2020s now and the world has moved on. You have to make sure the emails you send look good in Mail, Outlook, GMail AND that they look good on mobile devices too with their portrait orientation. Iris was created to enable mail communications with rest of the world, not with just other Amiga users.
»14.11.24 - 14:34