Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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.