Vreme: 11/02/2011 11:26 PM, Bill Campbell piše:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: ...
Thanks - I think most of what I'd want to keep is still accessible via imap. What I'm wondering is if there is a general consensus about the file format for long term storage that would be most likely to permit direct search and access from some future mail reader, possibly on some other OS. I suppose I could make a VM image that I could fire up as an imap server again, but that seems kind of cumbersome.
I would store in Maildir format as it's simple, supported by several IMAP servers (e.g. courier-imap and dovecot), and it's very easy to use standard *nix tools to search and/or manipulate messages.
Bill
Only mayor difference between two formats is that one keeps all mail in a single file,, keeping smaller storage footprint, while other keeps all e-mails in separate files, so it is easier to delete or categorize/separate or selectively delete them.