[CentOS] Archive mail format?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Nov 3 14:53:23 UTC 2011
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/02/11 3:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I understand the file types and contents - but was hoping that by
>> now there would be a standard file type that didn't have to be
>> 'imported' to a mail reader's message store before being accessed.
>
> well that depends on your mail program. if they use maildir or
> mbox, then you can just copy/move the appropriate format files into
> the apps message store and move on. of course, if the app has any
> other metadata like indexing and you want to merge your new stuff
> with some existing old stuff, you have to deal with that too.
I've never used OfflineIMAP, offlineimap.org, but it looks like an
interesting tool for maintaining a set of Maildir folders.
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