Eudora Replacement

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Doug Sweetser wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Another important factor in the long term success of Unix is the
> ineroperability of tools.  Although I use mh primarily, I can also use
> exmh, sylpheed, and squirrelmail (I regularly use the last two).  The
> underlying data structure is the same, individual files.
> 
> As I only barely understand it, the mbox format was developed by
> sys admins who didn't want so many small files around for each
> user.  Do evolution, thunderbird, and kmail give you a choice about
> how mail gets stored: individual files, mbox, or uniq format?  I know
> that sylpheed will allow either individual files or mbox, which is the
> best answer.

If you store your mail locally (i.e., grab it from a POP server), 
Mozilla, Thunderbird, and KMail store it in mbox format. If you keep 
your mail on an IMAP server, the format choice depends on the IMAP 
server you use.