On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:38:19 +0200 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your ISP for example, you > > don't > > need local storage on your email device (not any of mbox, maildir, or > > whatever). > > > > (I don't use IMAP (I use POP3), but I assume that if I were using IMAP as > > described, I could save emails on my local device, but I'm not clear on > > that > > mechanism / storage method.) > > It depends on the software used to retrieve the e-mails (via IMAP), e.g. > as far as I recall getmail can be configured to use either mbox or > Maildir as local storage. Correct: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html#running-mda Celejar
