Tom Dial wrote: 
> I elected to use Thunderbird a number of years ago because it has a
> relatively decent UI, downloads and removes the messages from my ISP's
> servers, and with Enigmail had reasonably good PGP integration. I'm sure
> there are others, but it's 10 - 20 years since I used them (fetchmail +
> mutt, IIRC).

Oh no, that's antique.

You should use getmail and mutt.

> I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
> if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird.

Thunderbird's usual mail storage is mbox, which mutt can read
directly. TB also has experimental fake-Maildir support, which
can be converted to real Maildir with a six-ish line script.

-dsr-

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