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Re: [TCLUG:5689] GUI email apps
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> > Well, I use Pine at work, but I only get a dozen or so mails
> > there per day. Can you go back & forth between mutt and exmh2?
> > Do they use the same folder format? Are most unix mail programs
> > interchangeable like this?
>
> No. exmh2 uses the mh mail directory format. Pine, mutt, and elm, use the
> mbox format. There are converters available, but switching back and forth
> is not convenient nor particularly easy.
>
Your better off doing what I do between Microsoft Outlook, IMP (Web based
IMAP messaging client (www.horde.org/imp)), and Pine. Run IMAP. :)
I use IMAP and procmail to have several folders that I can sort about and
check my mail from anywhere. Bonuses are that I can use my mail from any
computer and check the old and the new stuff and check folders (such as
this tclug folder), and its just-so-friggin-neat. :)
Who said email cant be cross-platform when your trying to share folders.
Go IMAP!
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