Re: Jumping ship

Somewhere about Wed, 30-Nov-2011 at 08:44PM +1300 (give or take), cr wrote:

[...]

|> 
|> Be that as it may, at some point Debian Stable will (presumably)
|> include Kmail2 at which point all my mailfiles will get converted
|> to some cryptic format that nothing else can read.  So I should
|> switch to something else first.

|> Question is, what?    Which current mailreaders use Maildir?
|> I tried Balsa but it felt a bit clunky and I couldn't persuade it to send 
|> messages so I reverted to Kmail for now.
|> Evolution I think uses Mbox.  Apparently so does Thunderbird.  I'm

I don't think Thunderbird uses vanilla Mbox -- maybe it's raspberry.
At least I can't read its mail with mutt after Thunderbird has done its
fiddling.


|> not so keen on ginormous files even if they are in ASCII.  All it
|> takes is one corrupt read or write or delete and there goes all
|> your messages.

I've never had that problem in 15 years with mutt (and before that,
elm).  It's such a simple file format, it's easy to fix up (even if a
few messages are lost).  Messages are separated in a simple way that
even I can spot.


|> 

|> Claws-mail apparently uses a text-based file-based relative of
|> Maildir called MH.  I might have to try that.  (From Wikipedia on
|> MH: "MH follows the Unix philosophy of write programs that do one
|> thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write
|> programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal
|> interface (Doug McIlroy)."  My thoughts exactly.)

That's why I use mutt to read and write.  I use procmail to filter.
Bit old fashioned but I like it like that.  I have to use Outlook at
work and I find it tedious by comparison.


|> Any others?  I don't need or want a calendar, or an appointments
|> book, or an organiser, I just want a mailreader/writer.  Kmail 1.13
|> is fine.  (Can you hear me, KDE?  Thought not).



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