On Feb 5, 2008 9:11 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I come from the dark ages. For me, it's important that the tools I > > use write files that anything can deal with, not just the app which > > created them. Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, > > including on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. > > > > The guis, in my experience, save in their own format (If you let them? > > That's just not true. > > Well, ok, it's *partially* true: Outlook stores mail in a > proprietary indexed format. > > But Netscape and it's descendants all use mbox as the native format, > as does Evolution & KMail. Sylpheed uses mh, which is also a > standardized text format. > > The only non-standard bit about these mailers is the directory where > they decide to store these mbox files.
But there are four types of mbox, and Thunderbird and SeaMonkey use a variant of one of those (although TB3 will finally support maildir). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
