On Saturday, 29 July 2023 07:56:21 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:29:59 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts, and I'd like to try it, but > > first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history to mbox > > format. Is it enough to run KMail's Import/Export Data tool to do this? > > It should be, on the face of it, but I'm suspicious (consider me > > paranoid if you like). > > Claws works with maildir. However, I'd also recommend setting up Dovecot > locally, then you can try as many mail clients as you want without having > to worry about where the mails are sotred or in what format.
Hm. I already have Dovecot on my LAN server, because KMail is horribly buggy with POP3, which is what my ISP offers. So fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot became necessary before I could use IMAP4 in KMail. All incoming emails are transferred to my workstation because I like to have everything in one place and one backup. Maybe I'll stick with KMail a bit longer... -- Regards, Peter.
