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. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant