Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/04/21 05:19, Dale wrote: >> Another question, can I just copy my current emails over and "import" >> them? I think Seamonkey uses mbox type setup. I know I could with >> Thunderbird but it was a bit fussy. It did work tho. It also made it >> easier to switch back. > Consider setting up a local imap server. Do all email clients do imap > nowadays? > > I use thunderbird, and since fetchmail broke, I just use rules to pull > everything down from the net, sort it, and copy it to local folders on > my imap server. > > You could then use mutt, or neomutt, or pine, or alpine, or whatever, to > read (most of) your mail. And any html garbage they couldn't handle, you > could use thunderbird or seamonkey or whatever. > > No need to move mail between different clients. And as for moving your > current stuff over, you just move it from Seamonkey's local store to the > imap server and it'll appear for all the other clients. > > Because I move around between home computers, having my mail like this > exposed on an imap server is brilliant ... > > Cheers, > Wol > >
If I understand this correctly, that could be a good idea. I use gmail, want to switch so bad I can taste it, and pop access to download all emails to my hard drive. I do that because if I run into trouble with my network, I have emails just in case I can find a mailing list post that will help. IMAP requires the internet from my understanding. From my understanding of your idea, I'd use a email program to download and store the emails for me here on my system and then use any frontend, Seamonkey, Thunderbird or whatever to read, reply etc. It would still give me a local copy I can access without a network connection but I can use whatever tool I want to see them. Interesting. That sounds like a awesome idea. Once moved, I'd never have to move it again if I change what I use to view emails. One thing, among others, I like about Seamonkey, folders and automatic sorting. For example, your reply went to a folder where all Gentoo user mailing list emails go. It also shows them by thread. I like the thread option for mailing lists but can disable it in other folders where threads don't do well. I repeat that for other mailing lists, -dev for example, but also for my bank, online retailers like ebay or Amazon etc. Each has their own place to go. One reason I do that, my filters are set up in such a way that if a email is made to look like one of those but comes from somewhere else, a scam or phishing, it doesn't filter. It stays in the inbox and that tells me to be suspicious. If I were to use IMAP, could I still do that? Does IMAP use folders and filters? I admit, I don't think I've ever used IMAP. This sounds like a interesting idea. I've read where people on this list set up such a thing and it doesn't seem to complicated. I might could handle that with a good howto. Thanks much for thinking outside the box a bit here. This could give me lots of good options. Dale :-) :-)
