[CentOS] Archive mail format?

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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