> I love Yarn's search
> features, and the pseudo-newsgroup treatment of listserv traffic is
> indispensable.
You can get the equivalent of yarn's treatment of listserv mail with
any program that filters mail and sorts by subject. I tend to subscribe
to listserv Digests, so I dont get dozens of mail messages per day per
listserv. Until now I did not like how I had to process listserv digests:
1) Use ddigest to separate a digest into separate messages in rnews
format.
a) ddigest was somewhat unreliable, and often created blank subject
messages from the beginning and ending sections of digests that
made yarn freeze, making me reboot.
b) ddigest required a separate script, and a separate instance for
each different digest. So if I got 3 e-mails from three listserv
digests, I had to run ddigest 3 different times to undigest them.
2) import the un-digested mail into yarn, routing them to pseudo-newsgroups.
In this regard, my discovery of readmail was a great relief. Now I dont
have to do anything extra or special with listserv digests, and I can
store them in mail folders if I want, instead of pseudo-newsgroups.
Readmail, un-digests and threads them, as the ads say, ``at the touch
of a button.''
I too love powerful search features, but was somewhat put off by the
keys yarn uses for searching at different levels (: / ; etc.).
Readmail's internal search is primitive by comparison, but since it
lets you choose your own news/mail viewer as well as editor, I choose
the 32 bit viewer, ``less''. That gives me full regular expression search
capability, the ability to position hits anywhere on the screen, etc. --
about the most powerful search ability possible.