On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:04 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Todd Walton wrote: > > And since this is a Linux mailing list, I'd like to mention the > > problem I have with mail portability in Linux email clients. I just > > can't seem to find the Linux way of complete ease when it comes to > > email. What the hell is this mess that Evolution drops on my > > filesystem?? And why can't I simply point Thunderbird to my previous > > You should not be storing email locally on your desktop IMHO. Your > standard interface to email should be IMAP. That is what I use and I > have no problem using squirrelmail, thunderbird, evolution, mutt, etc. > all to talk to the same email source and the mail is always presented > organized into folders just like I left it. > > The internal mail storage of any particular email client is specific to > that email client and it not really something one can reasonably expect > to be portable. More or less. I think you, among others, helped me out porting from one email client to another (from Outlook Express to Thunderbird to Evolution, eventually). I think that Thunderbird could make sense of the mail files that Evolution creates (but not of all its auxiliary files). It looks to me as if Evolution tries to keep its specific information separate from the files that can be exported (I haven't actually tried it yet, though, so I don't know for sure).
But, anyway. Where do you store your email? On your own server?? Since I don't have such a thing (yet), my alternative to the laptop as email storage is the web mail of The Very Big Corporation of America. With these constraints, storing email locally is the better alternative, or isn't it? Christoph -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
