[Pan-users] Re: <searching|reading> saved articles?

[Duncan]

Felix Karpfen posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:01:58 +1100 as excerpted:

> Both the Pan FAQ and the "Save-Articles help screen" give instructions
> on saving downloaded postings to a personally-selected
> "home-directory-location".  Is there any routine that would enable Pan
> to access this location in order to <view|search> the files that have
> stored there?
> 
>  I note that the format of the "saved postings" directory appears to be
> identical with the format of files stored in Pan's "article-cache"
> directory and that the article-cache-files are easily accessed by Pan.

First, as a pan user, you should appreciate this request.  Please don't 
post HTML to this list.

No, pan has no way to load posts from other than its normal location.  
The posts /are/ in the same format, standard Internet Message format, the 
same format used for email but with slightly different headers.  However, 
pan keeps other information about its groups, messages and threading, in 
other files, and it has no way to read raw message files except as it 
downloads them -- just putting them in the cache won't do anything either 
as they won't be in pan's indexes.

However, since the messages are standard Internet message format, you may 
well be able to use your mail client to load them.  I actually do that at 
times, using kmail.

-- 
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