Re: [CentOS] Archive mail format?

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, John R Pierce wrote:

On 11/02/11 3:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

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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.