-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-07-06 at 22:13 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
With the competing mail programs and mailbox/maildir formats, I find it very difficult to keep any "1" backup or archive of my mail that can be off-loaded and re-loaded into any one package easily. Thankfully, email is just "text" so I usually just end up backing up the mail files from whatever package (opera, kmail, thunderbird, etc..) and when I need to find anything from the past, just grepping through the files or using "formail" to dump the info I'm interested in.
I guess if push-came-to-shove, you could always write (or find) a short script to parse the saved archives and output the content in the format needed by whatever current mailer you happened to be using.
The mbox format can be used directly by almost any program, it is more or less standard. What is not standard at all is the format used for the indexes and "flag" information, such as "read", "answered", etc, normally kept on different files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpS5V4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WZ2QCeIcSNF9D1iwfpPV9mfDRRls9t EgwAn2wMEQlPuMsXGGUE4zUoiZR1fbBd =UdiA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org