On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > I use gmail to collect all my mailing lists. Why reinvent the wheel? :-) I have been using Pine for a long time on a Solaris box. My next step will be to fully drop Solaris, finally, and get everything on Linux. At some time I'll want to drop Pine too. Stallman told me to use Emacs for email (what would you expect from him?!) and I just might try that. Meanwhile, I also do something that you are doing: Everything coming into my Solaris box gets forwarded straight to Gmail before any spam filtering. All outgoing messages are Bcc'd to Gmail. So I have that nice backup on Gmail and it has great spam filtering, is very fast, and it is also very fast on searches. Gmail lacks some important flexibility in searches though. For example, you can't search for terms in the header nor can you filter based on header strings. So if someone bcc's a message to a mail list, Gmail won't filter it correctly. You could do it correctly if Gmail allowed you to deal with header strings such as this one: List-Id: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list.mn-linux.org> For me, the main reason for current interest is that I have 12 years of email postings from a scientific society listserv that need to be archived and made avaialble to members. I can't do that on Gmail, sadly, so I'll have to use something else. Mike