Carlos E. R. said the following on 02/13/2009 06:17 AM:
On Friday, 2009-02-13 at 17:56 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
I concur. Evolution will read maildir format (as will most mail clients).
Not "most", just "some". Some that don't: Thunderbird, Alpine.
This is why I use 'fetchmail' and have a "mail host" serve up the email to Thunderbird via IMAP. It has a number of other advantages over allowing storage format choice, such as allowing access via any machine on my LAN, which has proven very useful in some circumstances. My 'workstation' is a high-end laptop and the "mail host" can collect mail from all my external mailboxes that I've accumulated over the years whether I'm present or not. Thunderbird doesn't have to be active for mail to be collected. Running 'fetchmail' on the "mail host" means that I can also have sophisticated 'procmail' and 'SpamAssassin' filters without impacting the performance of my workstation. If I'm at a remote site with my laptop I can still access my mail via a SSH tunnel. Mail gets backed up along with everything else on that server. Its not an elaborate set-up, but its very robust and flexible. And it lets me use Thunderbird with the plug-ins I like. Some people choose to off-load their mail processing onto a service provider, be it their ISP or Gmail/Hotmail. In many ways this isn't so different, but I've brought it all under my control If you really want to know a downside of Thunderbird: It is really a Gnome application, uses gnome libraries, which offends my KDE-purist soul. YMMV of course. -- The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance." -- Oswald Chambers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org