From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EE113832C for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6409221C0A0; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f44.google.com (mail-bk0-f44.google.com [209.85.214.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B77FF21C0C2 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f44.google.com with SMTP id w11so8320050bku.31 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:58:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RoyckErVE9zzDb76FkGKWUG/FGmZN7ODwkNQAHZBbz0=; b=gpH3HGb7FNFiAQru1GTRs+l/k5TZIhobdvs02ATEedCUOOgBrCaRJ8BAGjNss96qh3 477LmXmI+hsvk0q7gF0mk8BtIjqiC6LqiAFZO1hPwan3Bxkj2sbAtKSDWCEjS0spzDew l0+rKcgj02yDnLgp0X4C7HCssmisBWEhoEpF/ekm3xVhBVA24rcsDQ3Om8MirR31p8Xr 1YxFTFFxIEl1SEa9L5M11PgRZkbigfDahPFYuvJpKgaa7qMiIBzWBfgf340Z7chS+lfb EgEKWFl6TxnrDvwfbX7JP8xzzBSOtYQfbseXFQA5uiC8Rf2Q0VOWaNRDwzJ1Nn/VQAeY sczA== X-Received: by 10.204.149.86 with SMTP id s22mr29841644bkv.57.1357545510271; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-209-117.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.209.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 18sm41069789bkv.0.2013.01.06.23.58.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:58:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:54:12 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2? Message-ID: <20130107095412.340e018c@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <50EA3667.6000401@electronsweatshop.com> References: <50E656E1.8040001@electronsweatshop.com> <201301041709.56472.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <50EA2E78.2070309@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <50EA3667.6000401@electronsweatshop.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5a19a046-508e-46d5-ae79-10ee1e55d7b7 X-Archives-Hash: 9a14f8a35c9eb2167c85cea6a91f0832 On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:43:51 -0500 Randy Barlow wrote: > That seems like it will likely be tricky. I don't know a lot about > kmail, but I've got two ideas that might work: > > 1) Depending on what kmail can do, you might be able to set up a > maildir or mbox folder with kmail, and have kmail transfer all that > mail into it. I believe Thunderbird can ready both mbox and maildir, > so that might be a nice solution if kmail can do that. > > 2) Another idea I thought of that might be heavy handed, but might > also work would be to set up an IMAP server of your own. Then you can > connect kmail to that IMAP server, transfer all your mail to the > server, then connect Thunderbird to it and import it. It's certainly > not a simple idea, but it should work. Cyrus is the IMAP server that I > use, but there are others, and perhaps some that are simpler to > configure. I use option 2) as well, to great effect. I run dovecot locally and back in the KDE3 days had transferred all my mail into it. kmail's INBOX was the default kmail folder, and filters moved every incoming mail to an IMAP folder. It runs slower than local mail folders (IMAP will never be as fast as simply looking on the disk) but it comes with the benefit of a sane maildir folder that dovecot reads without any of the peculiarities that all mail clients seem to have about their own local storage. And switching mail clients (or using two at the same time) is a simple matter of configuring a new mail source on the client. The best solution of all would be to have some process fetch your mail from everywhere and have procmail filter it. I never bothered going to that extent though, I just relied on filters in my primary mail client. It has the benefit that a mail client only reads and sends, and is not involved with changing the master mail store in any way (aka kmail2's ability to disastrously fuck up your mail life completely is severely limited) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com